Data processing apparatus and method

ABSTRACT

A data processing apparatus includes a group-wise interleaving unit that performs group-wise interleaving; and a block interleaving unit that performs block interleaving in such a manner that an LDPC code obtained by performing the group-wise interleaving is written in m number of columns as storage regions arranged in the row direction. A type of the block interleaving includes a type A and a type B. A MODCOD which is a combination of the LDPC code and the modulation scheme includes a MODCOD-A which is a MODCOD based on the assumption that the block interleaving of the type A is performed, and a MDOCOD-B which is a MDOCOD based on the assumption that the block interleaving of the type B is performed.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 14/840,888 filedAug. 31, 2015, which claims the benefit of priority of U.S. ProvisionalApplication Ser. No. 62/102,941, filed Jan. 13, 2015, and U.S.Provisional Application Ser. No. 62/105,494, filed Jan. 20, 2015, theentire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

BACKGROUND

The present technology relates to a data processing apparatus and a dataprocessing method, and more specifically, it relates to a dataprocessing apparatus and a data processing method capable of allowing aplurality of block interleaving methods to efficiently coexist in datatransmission using, for example, an LDPC code.

Some information described in the present specification and drawings isoffered from Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, referred to asSamsung), LGE Inc., the NERC, and CRC/ETRI (specified in the drawing).

A low density parity check (LDPC) code has high error correctingcapability, and has been widely used in transmission schemes of digitalbroadcasting such as digital video broadcasting (DVB)-S.2, DVB-T.2 orDVB-C.2 in Europe, and advanced television systems committee (ATSC) 3.0in the United States (for example, see DVB-S2X: ETSI EN 302 307-2 V1.1.1(2014-10)) in recent years.

According to recent research, similarly to a turbo code, when the LDPCcode is used, it has been found that it is possible to obtainperformance approximate to the Shannon limit having long code length.Since the LDPC code has the feature that a minimum distance isproportional to a code length, the LDPC code features good block errorprobability characteristics, and has a merit that a so-called errorfloor phenomenon which is observed in decoding characteristics on theturbo code does not occur.

SUMMARY

For example, in the data transmission using the LDPC code, the LDPC codeis changed (is symbolized) to a symbol of quadrature modulation (digitalmodulation) such as quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), and the symbolis mapped to a signal point of quadrature modulation and is transmitted.The data transmission using the LDPC code described above has beenwidely used all over the world.

However, when bit interleaving is performed on the LDPC code, aplurality of block interleaving methods may be adopted, and theplurality of block interleaving methods have to efficiently coexist.

The present technology has been made in view of such circumstances, andit is possible to allow a plurality of block interleaving methods toefficiently coexist in data transmission using an LDPC code.

According to an embodiment of the present technology, there is provideda first data processing apparatus/method. The first data processingapparatus/method is a data processing apparatus/method including agroup-wise interleaving unit/group-wise interleaving that performsgroup-wise interleaving which interleaves an LDPC code having a codelength (N) of 16,200 bits or 64,800 bits for every bit group of 360bits; and a block interleaving unit/block interleaving that performsblock interleaving in such a manner that an LDPC code obtained byperforming the group-wise interleaving is written in m number of columnsas storage regions arranged in the row direction, m bits are obtained byrespectively reading the LDPC code from m number of columns bit by bit,and the m bits are interleaved into one symbol corresponding to any oneof 2^(m) number of signal points defined by a modulation scheme. A typeof the block interleaving includes a type A in which the writing of anLDPC code obtained by performing the group-wise interleaving in thecolumn direction of the columns is iteratively performed on m number ofcolumns, and a type B in which the writing of an LDPC code obtained byperforming the group-wise interleaving in the row direction of m numberof columns for every bit group is iteratively performed. A MODCOD whichis a combination of the LDPC code and the modulation scheme includes aMODCOD-A which is a MODCOD based on the assumption that the blockinterleaving of the type A is performed, and a MDOCOD-B which is aMDOCOD based on the assumption that the block interleaving of the type Bis performed. When the block interleaving of the type A is performed onthe LDPC code of the MODCOD-B, the group-wise interleavingunit/group-wise interleaving performs the group-wise interleaving on theLDPC code of the MODCOD-B such that the same block interleaving resultas the block interleaving result obtained when the block interleaving ofthe type B is performed is obtained, or when the block interleaving ofthe type B is performed on the LDPC code of the MODCOD-A, the group-wiseinterleaving unit/group-wise interleaving performs the group-wiseinterleaving on the LDPC code of the MDOCOD-A such that the same blockinterleaving result as the block interleaving result obtained when theblock interleaving of the type A is performed is obtained.

In the first data processing apparatus/method, group-wise interleavingwhich interleaves an LDPC code having a code length (N) of 16,200 bitsor 64,800 bits for every bit group of 360 bits is performed, and blockinterleaving is performed in such a manner that an LDPC code obtained byperforming the group-wise interleaving is written in m number of columnsas storage regions arranged in the row direction, m bits are obtained byrespectively reading the LDPC code from m number of columns bit by bit,and the m bits are interleaved into one symbol corresponding to any oneof 2^(m) number of signal points defined by a modulation scheme. A typeof the block interleaving includes a type A in which the writing of anLDPC code obtained by performing the group-wise interleaving in thecolumn direction of the columns is iteratively performed on m number ofcolumns, and a type B in which the writing of an LDPC code obtained byperforming the group-wise interleaving in the row direction of m numberof columns for every bit group is iteratively performed. A MODCOD whichis a combination of the LDPC code and the modulation scheme includes aMODCOD-A which is a MODCOD based on the assumption that the blockinterleaving of the type A is performed, and a MDOCOD-B which is aMDOCOD based on the assumption that the block interleaving of the type Bis performed. When the block interleaving of the type A is performed onthe LDPC code of the MODCOD-B, in the group-wise interleaving, thegroup-wise interleaving is performed on the LDPC code of the MODCOD-Bsuch that the same block interleaving result as the block interleavingresult obtained when the block interleaving of the type B is performedis obtained, or when the block interleaving of the type B is performedon the LDPC code of the MODCOD-A, in the group-wise interleaving, thegroup-wise interleaving is performed on the LDPC code of the MDOCOD-Asuch that the same block interleaving result as the block interleavingresult obtained when the block interleaving of the type A is performedis obtained.

According to another embodiment of the present technology, there isprovided a second data processing apparatus/method. The second dataprocessing apparatus/method is a data processing apparatus/methodincluding a block deinterleaving unit/block deinterleaving that performsblock deinterleaving which returns m bits of a symbol obtained from datatransmitted from a transmission apparatus to an LDPC code obtained byperforming group-wise interleaving; and a group-wise deinterleavingunit/group-wise deinterleaving that performs group-wise deinterleavingwhich returns the arrangement of the LDPC code obtained by performingthe group-wise interleaving on the original arrangement. Thetransmission apparatus includes a group-wise interleaving unit thatperforms group-wise interleaving which interleaves an LDPC code having acode length (N) of 16,200 bits or 64,800 bits for every bit group of 360bits, and a block interleaving unit that performs block interleaving insuch a manner that an LDPC code obtained by performing the group-wiseinterleaving is written in m number of columns as storage regionsarranged in the row direction, m bits are obtained by respectivelyreading the LDPC code from m number of columns bit by bit, and the mbits are interleaved into one symbol corresponding to any one of 2^(m)number of signal points defined by a modulation scheme. A type of theblock interleaving includes a type A in which the writing of an LDPCcode obtained by performing the group-wise interleaving in the columndirection of the columns is iteratively performed on m number ofcolumns, and a type B in which the writing of an LDPC code obtained byperforming the group-wise interleaving in the row direction of m numberof columns for every bit group is iteratively performed. A MODCOD whichis a combination of the LDPC code and the modulation scheme includes aMODCOD-A which is a MODCOD based on the assumption that the blockinterleaving of the type A is performed, and a MDOCOD-B which is aMDOCOD based on the assumption that the block interleaving of the type Bis performed. When the block interleaving of the type A is performed onthe LDPC code of the MODCOD-B, the group-wise interleaving unit performsthe group-wise interleaving on the LDPC code of the MODCOD-B such thatthe same block interleaving result as the block interleaving resultobtained when the block interleaving of the type B is performed isobtained, or when the block interleaving of the type B is performed onthe LDPC code of the MODCOD-A, the group-wise interleaving unit performsthe group-wise interleaving on the LDPC code of the MDOCOD-A such thatthe same block interleaving result as the block interleaving resultobtained when the block interleaving of the type A is performed isobtained.

In the second data processing apparatus/method, block deinterleavingwhich returns m bits of a symbol obtained from data transmitted from atransmission apparatus to an LDPC code obtained by performing group-wiseinterleaving is performed, and group-wise deinterleaving which returnsthe arrangement of the LDPC code obtained by performing the group-wiseinterleaving on the original arrangement is performed. The transmissionapparatus includes a group-wise interleaving unit that performsgroup-wise interleaving which interleaves an LDPC code having a codelength (N) of 16,200 bits or 64,800 bits for every bit group of 360bits, and a block interleaving unit that performs block interleaving insuch a manner that an LDPC code obtained by performing the group-wiseinterleaving is written in m number of columns as storage regionsarranged in the row direction, m bits are obtained by respectivelyreading the LDPC code from m number of columns bit by bit, and the mbits are interleaved into one symbol corresponding to any one of 2^(m)number of signal points defined by a modulation scheme. A type of theblock interleaving includes a type A in which the writing of an LDPCcode obtained by performing the group-wise interleaving in the columndirection of the columns is iteratively performed on m number ofcolumns, and a type B in which the writing of an LDPC code obtained byperforming the group-wise interleaving in the row direction of m numberof columns for every bit group is iteratively performed. A MODCOD whichis a combination of the LDPC code and the modulation scheme includes aMODCOD-A which is a MODCOD based on the assumption that the blockinterleaving of the type A is performed, and a MDOCOD-B which is aMDOCOD based on the assumption that the block interleaving of the type Bis performed. When the block interleaving of the type A is performed onthe LDPC code of the MODCOD-B, the group-wise interleaving unit performsthe group-wise interleaving on the LDPC code of the MODCOD-B such thatthe same block interleaving result as the block interleaving resultobtained when the block interleaving of the type B is performed isobtained, or when the block interleaving of the type B is performed onthe LDPC code of the MODCOD-A, the group-wise interleaving unit performsthe group-wise interleaving on the LDPC code of the MDOCOD-A such thatthe same block interleaving result as the block interleaving resultobtained when the block interleaving of the type A is performed isobtained.

The data processing apparatuses may be one independent apparatus, or maybe internal blocks constituting one apparatus.

According to the present technology, it is possible to allow a pluralityof block interleaving methods to efficiently coexist in datatransmission using an LDPC code.

The effects described herein are not necessarily limited, and may be anyone of the effects described in the present disclosure.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram for describing a parity check matrix H of an LDPCcode;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for describing a decoding procedure of the LDPCcode;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrix of theLDPC code;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a Tanner graph of the paritycheck matrix;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a variable node;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a check node;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a configuration example of an embodiment ofa transmission system to which the present technology is applied;

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of atransmission apparatus;

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a bit interleaver;

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrix;

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a parity matrix;

FIG. 12 is a diagram for describing a parity check matrix of an LDPCcode defined by the standard of DVB-T.2;

FIG. 13 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix of the LDPCcode defined by the standard of DVB-T.2;

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of a Tanner graph for thedecoding of the LDPC code;

FIGS. 15A and 15B are diagrams showing examples of a parity matrixhaving a dual diagonal structure and a Tanner graph corresponding to theparity matrix,

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of the parity matrix of theparity check matrix corresponding to the LDPC code on which parityinterleaving has been performed;

FIG. 17 is a flowchart for describing an example of a process performedin the bit interleaver and a mapper;

FIG. 18 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of an LDPCencoder;

FIG. 19 is a flowchart for describing an example of the process of theLDPC encoder;

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an example of a parity check matrix initialvalue table in which a code rate is 1/4 and a code length is 16,200;

FIG. 21 is a diagram for describing a method of obtaining the paritycheck matrix H from the parity check matrix initial value table;

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing a structure of the parity check matrix;

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 24 is a diagram for describing an A matrix generated from theparity check matrix initial value table;

FIG. 25 is a diagram for describing parity interleaving on a B matrix;

FIG. 26 is a diagram for describing a C matrix generated from the paritycheck matrix initial value table;

FIG. 27 is a diagram for describing parity interleaving on a D matrix;

FIG. 28 is a diagram showing a parity check matrix obtained byperforming column permutation as parity interleaving that returns theparity interleaving to an original state on the parity check matrix;

FIG. 29 is a diagram showing a transformation check matrix obtained byperforming row permutation on the parity check matrix;

FIG. 30 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 31 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 32 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 33 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 34 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 35 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 36 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 37 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 38 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 39 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 40 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 41 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 42 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 43 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 44 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 45 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 46 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 47 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 48 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 49 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 50 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 51 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 52 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 53 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 54 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 55 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 56 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 57 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 58 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 59 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 60 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 61 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 62 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 63 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 64 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 65 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 66 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 67 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 68 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 69 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 70 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 71 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 72 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table;

FIG. 73 shows an example of a Tanner graph of a degree sequence ensemblein which column weights are 3 and row weights are 6;

FIG. 74 shows an example of a Tanner graph of a multi-edge typeensemble;

FIG. 75 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix;

FIG. 76 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix;

FIG. 77 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix;

FIG. 78 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix;

FIG. 79 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix;

FIG. 80 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix;

FIG. 81 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix;

FIG. 82 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix;

FIG. 83 is a diagram showing an example of a constellation when amodulation scheme is 16-QAM;

FIG. 84 is a diagram showing an example of a constellation when amodulation scheme is 64-QAM;

FIG. 85 is a diagram showing an example of a constellation when amodulation scheme is 256-QAM;

FIG. 86 is a diagram showing an example of a constellation when amodulation scheme is 1024-QAM;

FIG. 87 is a diagram showing an example of a constellation when amodulation scheme is 4096-QAM;

FIG. 88 is a diagram showing an example of a constellation when amodulation scheme is 4096-QAM;

FIG. 89 is a diagram showing an example of a coordinate of a signalpoint of UC when a modulation scheme is QPSK;

FIG. 90 is a diagram showing an example of a coordinate of a signalpoint of 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 16-QAM;

FIG. 91 is a diagram showing an example of a coordinate of a signalpoint of 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 64-QAM;

FIG. 92 is a diagram showing an example of a coordinate of a signalpoint of 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 256-QAM;

FIG. 93 is a diagram showing an example of a coordinate of a signalpoint of 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 256-QAM;

FIG. 94 is a diagram showing an example of a coordinate of a signalpoint of 1D NUC when a modulation scheme is 1024-QAM;

FIGS. 95A and 95B are diagrams showing the relationship between a symbolof 1024-QAM and a real part and an imaginary part of a complex number asa coordinate of a signal point of the 1D NUC corresponding to thesymbol;

FIG. 96 is a diagram showing an example of the coordinate of the signalpoint of the 1D NUC when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM;

FIGS. 97A and 97B are diagrams showing the relationship between thesymbol of 4096-QAM and the real part and the imaginary part of thecomplex number as the coordinate of the signal point of the 1D NUCcorresponding to the symbol;

FIG. 98 is a diagram showing another example of a constellation when amodulation scheme is 16-QAM;

FIG. 99 is a diagram showing another example of a constellation when amodulation scheme is 64-QAM;

FIG. 100 is a diagram showing another example of a constellation when amodulation scheme is 256-QAM;

FIG. 101 is a diagram showing another example of a coordinate of asignal point of 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 16-QAM;

FIG. 102 is a diagram showing another example of a coordinate of asignal point of 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 64-QAM;

FIG. 103 is a diagram showing another example of a coordinate of asignal point of 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 256-QAM;

FIG. 104 is a diagram showing another example of a coordinate of asignal point of 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 256-QAM;

FIG. 105 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a blockinterleaver;

FIG. 106 is a diagram showing the number of columns of parts forcombinations of code lengths and modulation schemes and part columnlengths;

FIGS. 107A and 107B are diagrams for describing block interleavingperformed in the block interleaver;

FIG. 108 is a diagram for describing group-wise interleaving performedin a group-wise interleaver;

FIG. 109 is a diagram showing a first example of a GW pattern for anLDPC code having a code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 110 is a diagram showing a second example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having a code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 111 is a diagram showing a third example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 112 is a diagram showing a fourth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits.

FIG. 113 is a diagram showing a fifth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 114 is a diagram showing a sixth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 115 is a diagram showing a seventh example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 116 is a diagram showing an eighth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 117 is a diagram showing a ninth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 118 is a diagram showing a tenth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 119 is a diagram showing an eleventh example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 120 is a diagram showing a twelfth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 121 is a diagram showing a thirteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 122 is a diagram showing a fourteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 123 is a diagram showing a fifteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 124 is a diagram showing a sixteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 125 is a diagram showing a seventeenth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 126 is a diagram showing an eighteenth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 127 is a diagram showing a nineteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 128 is a diagram showing a twentieth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 129 is a diagram showing a twenty-first example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 130 is a diagram showing a twenty-second example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 131 is a diagram showing a twenty-third example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 132 is a diagram showing a twenty-fourth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 133 is a diagram showing a twenty-fifth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 134 is a diagram showing a twenty-sixth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 135 is a diagram showing a twenty-seventh example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 136 is a diagram showing a twenty-eighth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 137 is a diagram showing a twenty-ninth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 138 is a diagram showing a thirtieth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 139 is a diagram showing a thirty-first example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 140 is a diagram showing a thirty-second example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 141 is a diagram showing a thirty-third example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length of 64 k bits;

FIG. 142 is a diagram showing a first example of a GW pattern for anLDPC code having a code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 143 is a diagram showing a second example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 144 is a diagram showing a third example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 145 is a diagram showing a fourth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 146 is a diagram showing a fifth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 147 is a diagram showing a sixth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 148 is a diagram showing a seventh example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 149 is a diagram showing an eighth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 150 is a diagram showing a ninth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 151 is a diagram showing a tenth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 152 is a diagram showing an eleventh example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 153 is a diagram showing a twelfth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 154 is a diagram showing a thirteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 155 is a diagram showing a fourteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 156 is a diagram showing a fifteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

FIG. 157 is a diagram showing a sixteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length of 16 k bits;

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FIG. 205 is a diagram showing a simulation result of a simulation thatmeasures an error rate;

FIG. 206 is a diagram showing a simulation result of a simulation thatmeasures an error rate;

FIG. 207 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of thereception apparatus;

FIG. 208 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a bitdeinterleaver;

FIG. 209 is a flowchart for describing an example of the processperformed by a demapper, the bit deinterleaver and an LDPC decoder;

FIG. 210 is a diagram showing an example of a parity check matrix of theLDPC code;

FIG. 211 is a diagram showing an example of a matrix (transformationcheck matrix) obtained by performing row permutation and columnpermutation on the parity check matrix;

FIG. 212 is a diagram showing an example of the transformation checkmatrix divided into a unit of a 5×5 matrix;

FIG. 213 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of adecoding device that performs node calculation P times all at once;

FIG. 214 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the LDPCdecoder;

FIG. 215 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a blockdeinterleaver;

FIG. 216 is a block diagram showing another configuration example of thebit deinterleaver;

FIG. 217 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the bitinterleaver;

FIG. 218 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a blockinterleaver corresponding to block interleaving of a type A;

FIG. 219 is a diagram showing the number of columns of parts forcombinations of code lengths and modulation schemes and part columnlengths;

FIGS. 220A and 220B are diagrams for describing block interleavingperformed in the block interleaver corresponding to the blockinterleaving of the type A;

FIG. 221 is a diagram for describing group-wise interleaving performedin a group-wise interleaver;

FIG. 222 is a diagram for describing a specific example (case 1) of theblock interleaving of the type A;

FIG. 223 is a diagram for describing a specific example (case 2) of theblock interleaving of the type A;

FIG. 224 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the blockinterleaver corresponding to block interleaving of a type B;

FIGS. 225A and 225B are diagrams for describing block interleavingperformed in the block interleaver corresponding to the blockinterleaving of the type B;

FIG. 226 is a diagram for describing a specific example (case 1) of theblock interleaving of the type B;

FIG. 227 is a diagram for describing a specific example (case 2) of theblock interleaving of the type B;

FIG. 228 a diagram for describing a specific conversion example (case 1)of the GW pattern performed in the group-wise interleaver;

FIG. 229 is a diagram for describing a specific conversion example (case2) of the GW pattern performed in the group-wise interleaver;

FIG. 230 shows an example of the GW pattern set to a MODCOD which is thecombination of the LDPC code of 64 k bits and the modulation scheme;

FIG. 231 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 2/15;

FIG. 232 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 3/15;

FIG. 233 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 4/15;

FIG. 234 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 5/15;

FIG. 235 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 6/15;

FIG. 236 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 7/15;

FIG. 237 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 8/15;

FIG. 238 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 9/15;

FIG. 239 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 10/15;

FIG. 240 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 11/15;

FIG. 241 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 12/15;

FIG. 242 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 13/15;

FIG. 243 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 2/15;

FIG. 244 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 3/15;

FIG. 245 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 4/15;

FIG. 246 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 5/15;

FIG. 247 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 6/15;

FIG. 248 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 7/15;

FIG. 249 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 8/15;

FIG. 250 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 9/15;

FIG. 251 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 10/15;

FIG. 252 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 11/15;

FIG. 253 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 12/15;

FIG. 254 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 13/15;

FIG. 255 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 2/15;

FIG. 256 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 3/15;

FIG. 257 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 4/15;

FIG. 258 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 5/15;

FIG. 259 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 6/15;

FIG. 260 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 7/15;

FIG. 261 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 8/15;

FIG. 262 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 9/15;

FIG. 263 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 10/15;

FIG. 264 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 11/15;

FIG. 265 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 12/15;

FIG. 266 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 13/15;

FIG. 267 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 2/15;

FIG. 268 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 3/15;

FIG. 269 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 4/15;

FIG. 270 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 5/15;

FIG. 271 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 6/15;

FIG. 272 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 7/15;

FIG. 273 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 8/15;

FIG. 274 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 9/15;

FIG. 275 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 10/15;

FIG. 276 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 11/15;

FIG. 277 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 12/15;

FIG. 278 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 13/15;

FIG. 279 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 2/15;

FIG. 280 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 3/15;

FIG. 281 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 4/15;

FIG. 282 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 5/15;

FIG. 283 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 6/15;

FIG. 284 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 7/15;

FIG. 285 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 8/15;

FIG. 286 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 9/15;

FIG. 287 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 10/15;

FIG. 288 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 11/15;

FIG. 289 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 12/15;

FIG. 290 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the coderate is 13/15;

FIG. 291 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 2/15;

FIG. 292 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 3/15;

FIG. 293 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 4/15;

FIG. 294 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 5/15;

FIG. 295 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 6/15;

FIG. 296 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 7/15;

FIG. 297 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 8/15;

FIG. 298 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 9/15;

FIG. 299 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 10/15;

FIG. 300 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 11/15;

FIG. 301 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 12/15;

FIG. 302 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM and the coderate is 13/15;

FIG. 303 shows an example of the GW pattern set to a MODCOD which is thecombination of the modulation scheme and the LDPC code of 16 k bits;

FIG. 304 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 2/15;

FIG. 305 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 3/15;

FIG. 306 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 4/15;

FIG. 307 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 5/15;

FIG. 308 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 6/15;

FIG. 309 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 7/15;

FIG. 310 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 8/15;

FIG. 311 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 9/15;

FIG. 312 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 10/15;

FIG. 313 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 11/15;

FIG. 314 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 12/15;

FIG. 315 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK and the code rateis 13/15;

FIG. 316 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 2/15;

FIG. 317 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 3/15;

FIG. 318 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 4/15;

FIG. 319 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 5/15;

FIG. 320 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 6/15;

FIG. 321 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 7/15;

FIG. 322 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 8/15;

FIG. 323 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 9/15;

FIG. 324 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 10/15;

FIG. 325 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 11/15;

FIG. 326 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 12/15;

FIG. 327 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rateis 13/15;

FIG. 328 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 2/15;

FIG. 329 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 3/15;

FIG. 330 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 4/15;

FIG. 331 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 5/15;

FIG. 332 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 6/15;

FIG. 333 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 7/15;

FIG. 334 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 8/15;

FIG. 335 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 9/15;

FIG. 336 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 10/15;

FIG. 337 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 11/15;

FIG. 338 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 12/15;

FIG. 339 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM and the code rateis 13/15;

FIG. 340 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 2/15;

FIG. 341 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 3/15;

FIG. 342 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 4/15;

FIG. 343 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 5/15;

FIG. 344 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 6/15;

FIG. 345 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 7/15;

FIG. 346 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 8/15;

FIG. 347 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 9/15;

FIG. 348 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 10/15;

FIG. 349 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 11/15;

FIG. 350 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 12/15;

FIG. 351 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM and the coderate is 13/15;

FIG. 352 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code of 64 k bits when themodulation scheme is QPSK;

FIG. 353 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code of 64 k bits when themodulation scheme is 16-QAM;

FIG. 354 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code of 64 k bits when themodulation scheme is 64-QAM;

FIG. 355 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code of 64 k bits when themodulation scheme is 256-QAM;

FIG. 356 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code of 64 k bits when themodulation scheme is 1024-QAM;

FIG. 357 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code of 64 k bits when themodulation scheme is 4096-QAM;

FIG. 358 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code of 16 k bits when themodulation scheme is QPSK;

FIG. 359 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code of 16 k bits when themodulation scheme is 16-QAM;

FIG. 360 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code of 16 k bits when themodulation scheme is 64-QAM;

FIG. 361 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code of 16 k bits when themodulation scheme is 256-QAM;

FIG. 362 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the bitdeinterleaver;

FIG. 363 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a blockdeinterleaver corresponding to block deinterleaving of a type A;

FIG. 364 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the blockdeinterleaver corresponding to block deinterleaving of a type B;

FIG. 365 is a block diagram showing another configuration example of thebit deinterleaver;

FIG. 366 is a block diagram showing a first configuration example of areception system to which the reception apparatus can be applied;

FIG. 367 is a block diagram showing a second configuration example ofthe reception system to which the reception apparatus can be applied;

FIG. 368 is a block diagram showing a third configuration example of thereception system to which the reception apparatus can be applied;

and

FIG. 369 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of anembodiment of a computer to which the present technology is applied.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS 1. First Embodiment

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present technology will be described,but an LDPC code will be described prior to the description.

LDPC Code

The LDPC code is a linear code, and is not necessarily a two-dimensionalcode. Here, it will be described that the LDPC code is a two-dimensionalcode.

The LDPC code has a greatest feature in that a parity check matrix whichdefines the LDPC code is a sparse matrix. Here, the sparse matrix refersto a matrix (matrix in which most of the elements are zero) in which thenumber of “1”s which are elements in a matrix is extremely small.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a parity check matrix H of theLDPC code.

In the parity check matrix H of FIG. 1, a weight of each column (columnweight) (the number of “1” s) is “3”, and a weight of each row (rowweight) is “6”.

In the encoding (LDPC encoding) using the LDPC code, for example, acodeword (LDPC code) is generated by generating a generator matrix Gbased on the parity check matrix H and multiplying two-dimensionalinformation bits by the generator matrix G.

Specifically, an encoding device that performs the LDPC encodingcalculates the generator matrix G in which the expression GH^(T)=0 isestablished between a transposed matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrixH and the generator matrix. Here, when the generator matrix G is a K×Nmatrix, the encoding device generates an N-bit codeword c (=uG) bymultiplying by the generator matrix G by a K-bit string (vector u) ofthe information bits. The codeword (LDPC code) generated by the encodingdevice is received by a reception side through a predeterminedcommunication channel.

The LDPC code can be decoded by a message passing algorithm which iscalled probabilistic decoding suggested by Gallager and uses beliefpropagation on a so-called Tanner graph which includes a variable node(referred to as a message node) and a check node. Hereinafter,appropriately, the variable node and the check node are simply referredto as a node.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a procedure of decoding the LDPC code.Hereinafter, a real number value (reception LLR) obtained byrepresenting the likelihood that the value of an i-th code bit of theLDPC code (one codeword) received by the reception side will be “0”using a log-likelihood ratio is appropriately referred to as a receptionvalue u_(0i). A message output from the check node is represented asu_(j), and a message output from the variable node is represented asv_(i).

As shown in FIG. 2, in the decoding of the LDPC code, in step S11, afterthe LDPC code is received, the message (check node message) u_(j) isinitialized by setting its value to “0”, a variable k expressed as aninteger as a counter of an iteration process is initialized by settingits value to “0”, and the procedure proceeds to step S12. In step S12,the message (variable node message) v_(i) is obtained by performing acalculation (variable node calculation) represented by Expression (1)based on the reception value u_(0i) obtained by receiving the LDPC code,and the message u_(j) is obtained by performing a calculation (checknode calculation) represented by Expression (2) based on the messagev_(i).

$\begin{matrix}{v_{i} = {u_{0\; i} + {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{d_{v} - 1}u_{j}}}} & (1) \\{{\tanh \left( \frac{u_{j}}{2} \right)} = {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)}}} & (2)\end{matrix}$

Where, d_(v) and d_(c) in Expression (1) and Expression (2) arerespectively parameters, which indicate the number of “1”s in thelongitudinal direction (column) and the transverse direction (row) ofthe parity check matrix H and can be arbitrarily selected. For example,in the case of the LDPC code ((3, 6) LDPC code) for the parity checkmatrix H shown in FIG. 1 in which the column weight is 3 and the rowweight is 6, d_(v)=3, and d_(c)=6.

In the variable node calculation of Expression (1) and the check nodecalculation of Expression (2), since messages input from edges (linesconnecting the variable node and the check node) to respectively outputmessages are not used as calculation targets, a calculation range isfrom 1 to d_(v)−1 or from 1 to d_(c)−1. A table of a function R(v₁, v₂)represented by Expression (3) defined by one output for two inputs v_(i)and v₂ is created in advance, and the check node calculation ofExpression (2) is performed by continuously (recursively) using thetable as shown in Expression (4).

x=2tanh⁻¹{tanh(v ₁/2)tanh(v ₂/2)}=R(v ₁ v ₂)   (3)

u _(j) =R(v ₁ ,R(v ₂ ,R(v ₃ , . . . R(V _(d) _(c) ₋₂ ,V _(d) _(c)₁))))  (4)

In step S12, the variable k is increased by “1”, and the procedureproceeds to step S13. In step S13, it is determined whether or not thevariable k is greater than a predetermined iterative decoding number C.In step S13, when it is determined that the variable k is not greaterthan C, the procedure returns to step S12, and the same process isiterated.

In step S13, when it is determined that the variable k is greater thanC, the procedure proceeds to step S14. Thereafter, the message v_(i) asa decoding result that is ultimately output is obtained by performing acalculation represented by Expression (5), and the obtained message isoutput. The decoding process of the LDPC code is ended.

$\begin{matrix}{v_{i} = {u_{0\; i} + {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{d_{v}}u_{j}}}} & (5)\end{matrix}$

Here, the calculation of Expression (5) is different from the variablenode calculation of Expression (1), and is performed using the messagesu_(j) from all edges that are connected to the variable node.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrix H ofthe (3, 6) LDPC code (a code rate of 1/2 and a code length of 12).

Similarly to FIG. 1, in the parity check matrix H of FIG. 3, the columnweight is 3, and the row weight is 6.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the Tanner graph of the parity check matrixH of FIG. 3.

Here, in FIG. 4, nodes expressed as a plus “+” are check nodes, andnodes expressed as an equal sign “=” are variable nodes. The check nodesand the variable nodes correspond to the rows and columns of the paritycheck matrix H, respectively. Lines connecting the check nodes and thevariable nodes are edges, and correspond to “1”s which are elements ofthe parity check matrix.

That is, when an element in the j-th row and the i-th column is 1, ani-th variable node (“=” node) from the top and a j-th check node (“+”node) from the top are connected through an edge in FIG. 4. The edgeindicates that a code bit corresponding to the variable node has aconstraint condition corresponding to the check node.

In a sum-product algorithm which is a method of decoding the LDPC code,the variable node calculation and the check node calculation areiteratively performed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the variable node calculation performed inthe variable node.

In the variable node, the message v_(i) corresponding to the edge to becalculated is obtained using the variable node calculation of Expression(1) using the reception value u_(oi) and the messages u₁ and u₂ from theremaining edges connected to the variable node. Messages correspondingto other edges are similarly obtained.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the check node calculation performed in thecheck node.

Here, the check node calculation of Expression (2) can be rewritten asExpression (6) by using a relationship of an expressionaxb=exp{ln(|a|)+ln(|b|)}×sign(a)×sign(b). In this case, sign(x) is 1when x≥0, and is −1 when x<0.

$\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}{u_{j} = {2\; {\tanh^{- 1}\left( {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)}} \right)}}} \\{= {2\; {\tanh^{- 1}\left\lbrack {\exp \left\{ {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {\ln \left( {{\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)}} \right)}} \right\} \times {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {{sign}\left( {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)} \right)}}} \right\rbrack}}} \\{= {2{\tanh^{- 1}\left\lbrack {\exp \left\{ {- \left( {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {- {\ln \left( {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)} \right)}}} \right)} \right\}} \right\rbrack} \times {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {{sign}\left( v_{i} \right)}}}}\end{matrix} & (6)\end{matrix}$

In x≥0, when a function φ(x) is defined as the expressionϕ(x)=ln(tanh(x/2)), since the expression ϕ⁻¹(x)=2 tanh⁻¹(e^(−x)) isestablished, Expression (6) can be modified into Expression (7).

$\begin{matrix}{u_{j} = {{\varphi^{- 1}\left( {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}{\varphi \left( {v_{i}} \right)}} \right)} \times {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {{sign}\left( v_{i} \right)}}}} & (7)\end{matrix}$

In the check node, the check node calculation of Expression (2) isperformed according to Expression (7).

That is, as shown in FIG. 6, in the check node, the message u_(j)corresponding to the edge to be calculated is calculated by the checknode calculation of Expression (7) using messages v₁, v₂, v₃, v₄ and v₅from the remaining edges connected to the check node. Messagescorresponding to other edges are similarly calculated.

The function ϕ(x) of Expression (7) can be expressed as the expressionϕ(x)=ln((e^(x)+1)/(e^(x)−1)), and when x>0, ϕ(x)=ϕ⁻¹(x). When thefunctions ϕ(x) and ϕ⁻¹(x) are implemented on hardware, these functionsare implemented using a lookup table (LUT) in some cases, and the sameLUT is used for both of these functions.

Configuration Example of Transmission System to which Present Technologyis Applied

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a configuration example of an embodiment ofa transmission system (refers to a system in which a plurality ofapparatuses is logically integrated irrespective of whether or not therespective apparatuses are present in the same housing) to which thepresent technology is applied.

In FIG. 7, the transmission system includes a transmission apparatus 11,and a reception apparatus 12.

The transmission apparatus 11 transmits (broadcasts) (sends), forexample, television broadcasting programs. That is, the transmissionapparatus 11 encodes, for example, target data which is a transmissiontarget such as image data or voice data as the program into the LDPCcode, and transmits the encoded code through a communication channel 13such as a satellite channel, a terrestrial channel or a cable (wiredchannel).

The reception apparatus 12 receives the LDPC code transmitted from thetransmission apparatus 11 through the communication channel 13, decodesthe received code into the target data, and outputs the decoded data.

Here, it is understand that the LDPC code used in the transmissionsystem of FIG. 7 exhibits extremely high capability in an additive whiteGaussian noise (AWGN) communication channel.

Meanwhile, in the communication channel 13, a burst error or erasure mayoccur. For example, when the communication channel 13 is specifically aterrestrial channel, in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) system, the power of a particular symbol may become zero(erasure) due to the delay of an echo (a path other than a main path) ina multi-path environment in which a desired-to-undesired (D/U) ratio is0 dB (undesired=echo power is equal to desired=main path power).

Even in flutter (communication path in which the delay is zero and theecho to which the Doppler frequency is applied is added), when the D/Uis 0 dB, the power of all OFDM symbols at a particular time may becomezero (erasure) by the Doppler frequency.

A burst error may occur due to a state of a wiring from a reception unit(not shown) of the reception apparatus 12 such as an antenna thatreceives a signal from the transmission apparatus 11 to the receptionapparatus 12 or instability of a power supply of the reception apparatus12.

Meanwhile, in the decoding of the LDPC code, in the columns of theparity check matrix H and the variable nodes corresponding to the codebits of the LDPC code, since the variable node calculation of Expression(1) for performing the addition of (reception value u_(0i)) of the codebits of the LDPC code is performed as shown in FIG. 5, if the code bitsused for the variable node calculation are in error, the accuracy of theobtained message is decreased.

In the decoding of the LDPC code, since the check node calculation ofExpression (7) is performed in the check node by using the messagesobtained in the variable nodes connected to the check node, when thenumber of check nodes in which errors (including erasure) simultaneouslyoccur in (the code bits of the LDPC code corresponding to) the pluralityof connected variable nodes is increased, decoding performance isdegraded.

That is, for example, when the erasure simultaneously occurs in two ormore variable nodes connected to the check node, the check node returnsan equal-probability message in which a probability that the value willbe zero and a probability that the value will be one are equal to eachother to all of the variable nodes. In this case, the check node thatreturns the equal-probability message does not contribute to onedecoding process (one set of the variable node calculation and the checknode calculation), and thus, it is necessary to increase the number oftimes the decoding process is iterated. Accordingly, the decodingperformance is degraded, and the power consumption of the receptionapparatus 12 that decodes the LDPC code is increased.

Thus, in the transmission system of FIG. 7, it is possible to improvetolerance to the burst error or the erasure while maintainingperformance in the AWGN communication channel (AWGN channel).

Configuration Example of Transmission Apparatus 11

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of thetransmission apparatus 11 of FIG. 7.

In the transmission apparatus 11, one or more input streams as targetdata are supplied to a mode adaptation/multiplexer 111.

The mode adaptation/multiplexer 111 performs a mode selection and aprocess such as multiplexing on one or more input streams being suppliedthereto when necessary, and supplies data obtained as the result to apadder 112.

The padder 112 performs necessary zero padding (insertion of Nulls) onthe data from the mode adaptation/multiplexer 111, and supplies dataobtained as the result to a BB scrambler 113.

The BB scrambler 113 performs base-band (BB) scrambling on the data fromthe padder 112, and supplies data obtained as the result to a BCHencoder 114.

The BCH encoder 114 performs BCH encoding the data from the BB scrambler113, and supplies data obtained as the processing result as LDPC targetdata which is an LDPC encoding target to an LDPC encoder 115.

The LDPC encoder 115 performs, for example, the LDPC encoding inaccordance with the parity check matrix in which the parity matrix whichis a part corresponding to the parity bits of the LDPC code has a dualdiagonal structure on the LDPC target data from the BCH encoder 114, andoutputs the LDPC code using the LDPC target data as the informationbits.

That is, the LDPC encoder 115 performs the LDPC encoding that encodesthe LDPC target data into the LDPC code (corresponding to the paritycheck matrix) defined by a predetermined standard such as DVB-S.2,DVB-T.2 or DVB-C.2, or the LDPC code (corresponding to the parity checkmatrix) to be adopted by ATSC 3.0, and outputs the LDPC code obtained asthe result.

Here, the LDPC code defined by the DVB-T.2 standard or the LDPC code tobe adopted by ATSC 3.0 is an irregular repeat-accumulate (IRA) code, andthe parity matrix in the parity check matrix of the LDPC code has thedual diagonal structure. The parity matrix and the dual diagonalstructure will be described below. The IRA code is described in, forexample, “Irregular Repeat-Accumulate Codes,” H. Jin, A. Khandekar, andR. J. McEliece, in Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Turbocodes and Related Topics, pp. 1-8, September 2000.

The LDPC code output from the LDPC encoder 115 is supplied to a bitinterleaver 116.

The bit interleaver 116 performs bit interleaving to be described belowon the LDPC code from the LDPC encoder 115, and supplies the LDPC codeon which the bit interleaving has been performed to a mapper 117.

The mapper 117 performs quadrature modulation (multi-level modulation)by mapping the LDPC code from the bit interleaver 116 to a signal pointrepresenting one symbol of the quadrature modulation for every one ormore code bits of the LDPC code (for every symbol).

That is, the mapper 117 performs the quadrature modulation by mappingthe LDPC code from the bit interleaver 116 to a signal point determinedthrough a modulation scheme that performs the quadrature modulation ofthe LDPC code on an IQ plane (IQ constellation) defined using an I axisindicating an I component having the same phase as that of a carrierwave and a Q axis indicating a Q component perpendicular to the carrierwave.

When the number of signal points determined through the modulationscheme of the quadrature modulation performed by the mapper 117 is2^(m), in the mapper 117, the LDPC code from the bit interleaver 116 ismapped to a signal point of 2^(m) number of signal points indicating asymbol for every symbol by using m number of code bits of the LDPC codeas a symbol (one symbol).

Here, examples of the modulation scheme of the quadrature modulationperformed by the mapper 117 include a modulation scheme defined byDVB-T.2, a modulation scheme to be adopted by ATSC 3.0, or othermodulation schemes, that is, binary phase-shift keying (BPSK),quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), 8 phase-shift keying (PSK), 16amplitude and phase-shift keying (APSK), 32 APSK, 16 quadratureamplitude modulation (QAM), 64-QAM, 256-QAM, 1024-QAM, 4096-QAM and 4pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM). In the mapper 117, whether to performquadrature modulation of any modulation scheme is previously setdepending on, for example, an operation input of an operator of thetransmission apparatus 11.

The data (mapping result obtained by mapping the symbol to the signalpoint) obtained by the process in the mapper 117 is supplied to a timeinterleaver 118.

The time interleaver 118 performs time interleaving (interleaving in thetime direction) on the data from the mapper 117 for every symbol, andsupplies data obtained as the result to a single-inputsingle-output/multiple-input single-output (SISO/MISO) encoder 119.

The SISO/MISO encoder 119 performs space-time encoding on the data fromthe time interleaver 118, and supplies the encoded data to a frequencyinterleaver 120.

The frequency interleaver 120 performs frequency interleaving(interleaving in the frequency direction) on the data from the SISO/MISOencoder 119 for every symbol, and supplies data to a frame builder andresource allocation unit 131.

Meanwhile, control data (signaling) for transmission control such asbase-band (BB) signaling (BB header) is supplied to a BCH encoder 121.

Similarly to the BCH encoder 114, the BCH encoder 121 performs BCHencoding on the supplied control data, and supplies data obtained as theresult to an LDPC encoder 122.

Similarly to the LDPC encoder 115, the LDPC encoder 122 performs LDPCencoding on the data from the BCH encoder 121 as LDPC target data, andsupplies an LDPC code obtained as the result to a mapper 123.

Similarly to the mapper 117, the mapper 123 performs quadraturemodulation by mapping the LDPC code from the LDPC encoder 122 for everyone or more bits of the LDPC code (unit of the symbol) to a signal pointindicating one symbol of the quadrature modulation, and supplies dataobtained as the result to a frequency interleaver 124.

Similarly to the frequency interleaver 120, the frequency interleaver124 performs frequency interleaving on the data from the mapper 123 forevery symbol, and supplies data to the frame builder and resourceallocation unit 131.

The frame builder and resource allocation unit 131 inserts pilot symbolsinto necessary positions of the data (symbol) from the frequencyinterleavers 120 and 124, constructs a frame (for example, a physicallayer (PL) frame, a T2 frame, or a C2 frame) including a predeterminednumber of symbols from the data (symbol) obtained as the result, andsupplies the constructed frame to an OFDM generation unit 132.

The OFDM generation unit 132 generates an OFDM signal corresponding tothe frame, based on the frame from the frame builder and resourceallocation unit 131, and transmits the generated signal through thecommunication channel 13 (FIG. 7).

The transmission apparatus 11 can be configured without including someof the blocks shown in FIG. 8 such as the time interleaver 118, theSISO/MISO encoder 119, the frequency interleaver 120 and the frequencyinterleaver 124.

Configuration Example of Bit Interleaver 116

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the bitinterleaver 116 of FIG. 8.

The bit interleaver 116 has a function of interleaving data, andincludes a parity interleaver 23, a group-wise interleaver 24, and ablock interleaver 25.

The parity interleaver 23 performs parity interleaving that interleavesparity bits of the LDPC code from the LDPC encoder 115 into positions ofother parity bits, and supplies the LDPC code on which the parityinterleaving has been performed to the group-wise interleaver 24.

The group-wise interleaver 24 performs group-wise interleaving on theLDPC code from the parity interleaver 23, and supplies the LDPC code onwhich the group-wise interleaving has been performed to the blockinterleaver 25.

Here, in the group-wise interleaving, 360 bits of one group obtained bydividing the LDPC code corresponding to one code from a leading codethereof into a unit of 360 bits equal to a unit size P to be describedbelow are grouped as a bit group, and the LDPC code from the parityinterleaver 23 is interleaved for every bit group.

It is possible to further enhance an error rate when the group-wiseinterleaving is performed than when the group-wise interleaving is notperformed. As a result, it is possible to ensure favorable communicationquality in data transmission.

By performing block interleaving for demultiplexing the LDPC code fromthe group-wise interleaver 24, the block interleaver 25 symbolizes theLDPC code corresponding to one code into, for example, an m-bit symbolwhich is a unit of mapping, and the symbolized symbol is supplied to themapper 117 (FIG. 8).

Here, in the block interleaving, the LDPC code from the group-wiseinterleaver 24 is written in a column (longitudinal) direction in astorage region in which columns as storage regions storing apredetermined number of bits in the column direction are arranged by thenumber corresponding to m number of bits of the symbol in a rowdirection (transverse direction), and is read in the row direction.Thus, the LDPC code corresponding to one code is symbolized into, forexample, the m-bit symbol.

Parity Check Matrix of LDPC Code

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrix Hused for the LDPC encoding in the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8.

The parity check matrix H has a low-density generator matrix (LDGM)structure, and can be expressed as the expression H=[H_(A)|H_(T)] (amatrix in which an element of an information matrix H_(A) is used as aleft element, and an element of a parity matrix H_(T) is used as a rightelement) by the information matrix H_(A) which is a part correspondingto the information bits of the code bits of the LDPC code and the paritymatrix H_(T) corresponding to the parity bits.

Here, the number of bits of the information bits of the code bits of theLDPC code (one codeword) of the one code and the number of bits of theparity bits are respectively referred to as an information length K anda parity length M, and the number of bits of the code bits of the LDPCcode of one code (one codeword) is referred to as a code length N(=K+M).

The information length K and the parity length M of the LDPC code havinga certain code length N are determined depending on a code rate. Theparity check matrix H is a matrix in which row×column is M×N (matrix ofM row×N column). The information matrix H_(A) is an M×K matrix, and theparity matrix H_(T) is an M×M matrix.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of the parity matrix H_(T) ofthe parity check matrix H used for the LDPC encoding in the LDPC encoder115 of FIG. 8.

The parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H used for the LDPCencoding in the LDPC encoder 115 is the same as the parity matrix H_(T)of the parity check matrix H of the LDPC code defined by the standardsuch as DVB-T.2.

As shown in FIG. 11, the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrixH of the LDPC code defined by the standard such as DVB-T.2 is a matrixhaving a dual diagonal structure (lower bidiagonal matrix) in which theelements of 1s are arranged in a so-called dual diagonal form. The rowweight of the parity matrix H_(T) is 1 for the first row, and is 2 forall of the remaining rows. The column weight is 1 for the last column,and is 2 for all of the remaining columns.

As mentioned above, the LDPC code of the parity check matrix H of whichthe parity matrix H_(T) has the dual diagonal structure can be generatedusing the parity check matrix H.

That is, the LDPC code (one codeword) is expressed as a row vector c,and a column vector which is the transpose of the row vector isexpressed as c^(T). A part of the information bits of the row vector cwhich is the LDPC code is expressed as a row vector A, and a part of theparity bits is expressed as a row vector T.

In this case, the row vector c can be expressed as the express c=[A|T](row vector in which an element of the row vector A is used as a leftelement and an element of the row vector T is used as a right element)by the row vector A as the information bits and the row vector T as theparity bits.

The parity check matrix H and the row vector c=[A|T] as the LDPC codeare necessary to satisfy the expression Hc^(T)=0, and when the paritymatrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H=[H_(A)|H_(T)] has the dualdiagonal structure shown in FIG. 11, the row vector T as the parity bitsconstituting the row vector c=[A|T] that satisfies the expressionHc^(T)=0 can be successively (sequentially) calculated by sequentiallychanging the elements of the respective rows to zero from the firstelement of the column vector Hc^(T) in the expression Hc^(T)=0.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing the parity check matrix H of the LDPC codedefined by the standard such as DVB-T.2.

The column weight of a KX column from the first column of the paritycheck matrix H of the LDPC code defined by the standard such as DVB-T.2is X, the column weight of the K3 column is 3, the column weight of theM−1 column is 2, and the column weight of the last column is 1.

Here, KX+K3+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing column numbers KX, K3 and M and a columnweight X with respect to the respective code rates r of the LDPC codedefined by the standard such as DVB-T.2.

In the standard such as DVB-T.2, the LDPC codes having the code lengthsN of 64,800 bits and 16,200 bits are defined.

Eleven code rates (nominal rates) of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4,4/5, 5/6, 8/9, and 9/10 are defined for the LDPC code having the codelength N of 64,800 bits, and ten code rates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5,2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, and 8/9 are defined for the LDPC code having thecode length N of 16,200 bits.

Here, the code length N of 64,800 bits is referred to as 64 k bits, andthe code length N of 16,200 bits is referred to as 16 k bits.

In the case of the LDPC code, code bits of the parity check matrix Hcorresponding to columns having a larger column weight tend to havelower error rates.

In the parity check matrix H defined by the standard such as DVB-T.2shown in FIGS. 12 and 13, the column weight of the column on the leadingside (the left side) tends to be large, and thus, in the case of theLDPC code corresponding to the parity check matrix H, the first code bittends to have high error tolerance (has tolerance to an error), and thelast code bit tends to have low error tolerance.

Parity Interleaving

The parity interleaving performed by the parity interleaver 23 of FIG. 9will be described with reference to FIGS. 14 to 16.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of (a part of) the Tanner graphof the parity check matrix of the LDPC code.

As shown in FIG. 14, when errors such as erasure simultaneously occur in(code bits corresponding to) the plurality of variable nodes such as twovariable nodes connected to the check node, the check node returns theequal-probability message in which the probability that the value willbe zero and the probability that the value will be one are equal to allof the variable nodes connected to the check node. Thus, when theerasure simultaneously occurs in the plurality of variable nodesconnected to the same check node, the decoding performance is degraded.

However, the LDPC code output from the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8 is anIRA code similarly to the LDPC code defined by the standard such asDVB-T.2, and the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H hasthe dual diagonal structure as shown in FIG. 11.

FIGS. 15A and 15B are diagrams showing examples of the parity matrixH_(T) having the dual diagonal structure as shown in FIG. 11 and theTanner graph corresponding to the parity matrix H_(T).

FIG. 15A shows an example of the parity matrix H_(T) having the dualdiagonal structure, and FIG. 15B shows the Tanner graph corresponding tothe parity matrix H_(T) of FIG. 15A.

In the parity matrix H_(T) having the dual diagonal structure, theelements of “1”s are adjacent to each other in the respective rows(except for the first column). For this reason, in the Tanner graph ofthe parity matrix H_(T), two adjacent variable nodes corresponding tocolumns of two adjacent elements in which the values of the paritymatrix H_(T) are 1s are connected to the same check node.

Accordingly, when the parity bits corresponding to the two adjacentvariable nodes are simultaneously in error due to the burst error or theerasure, since the check node connected to the two variable nodes(variable nodes requesting messages using the parity bits) correspondingto the two parity bits in error returns the equal-probability message inwhich the probability that the value will be zero and the probabilitythat the value will be one are equal to the variable nodes connected tothe check node, the decoding performance is degraded. When a burstlength (the number of bits of the parity bits that are continuously inerror) is increased, the number of check nodes that return theequal-probability message is increased, and thus, the decodingperformance is further degraded.

Thus, in order to prevent the degradation of the decoding performance,the parity interleaver 23 (FIG. 9) performs the parity interleaving thatinterleaves the parity bits of the LDPC code from the LDPC encoder 115into positions of other parity bits.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity checkmatrix H corresponding to the LDPC code on which the parity interleavinghas been performed by the parity interleaver 23 of FIG. 9.

Here, the information matrix H_(A) of the parity check matrix Hcorresponding to the LDPC code output from the LDPC encoder 115 has acyclic structure similarly to the information matrix of the parity checkmatrix H corresponding to the LDPC code defined by the standard such asDVB-T.2.

The cyclic structure refers to a structure in which a certain columncoincides with a column obtained by performing cyclic shifting onanother column, and includes, for example, a structure in which thepositions of 1s of the respective rows of the P column for each of the Pcolumns are positions obtained by performing cyclic-shifting in thecolumn direction by a predetermined value such as a value proportionalto a value q obtained by dividing the first column of the P column bythe parity length M. Hereinafter, the P column in the cyclic structureis appropriately referred to as a unit size.

As described in FIGS. 12 and 13, as the LDPC code defined by thestandard of DVB-T.2, there are two types of LDPC codes of which the codelengths N are 64,800 bits and 16,200 bits, and the unit size P of bothof these two types of LDPC codes is defined as 360 which is one ofdivisors except for 1 and M of divisors of the parity length M.

Further, the parity length M is a value other than a prime numberrepresented by the expression M=q×P=q×360 by using the value q differentdepending on the code rate. Accordingly, similarly to the unit size P,the value q is another one of the divisors except for 1 and M of thedivisors of the parity length M, and is obtained by dividing the paritylength M by the unit size P (the product of P and q which are divisorsof the parity length M is the parity length M).

As described above, when the information length is K, an integer whichis 0 or greater and less than P is x, an integer which is 0 or greaterand less than q is y, the parity interleaver 23 interleaves the(K+qx+y+1)-th code bit of the code bits of the N-bit LDPC code into theposition of the (K+Py+x+1)-th code bit.

Since both of the (K+qx+y+1)-th code bit and the (K+Py+x+1)-th code bitare code bits subsequent to a (K+1)-th code bit, these bits are paritybits. Accordingly, the positions of the parity bits of the LDPC code aremoved through the parity interleaving.

According to the parity interleaving, since (the parity bitscorresponding to) the variable nodes connected to the same check nodeare separated by the unit size P, that is, 360 bits, when the burstlength is less than 360 bits, it is possible to avoid the situation thatthe plurality of variable nodes connected to the same check node aresimultaneously in error, and as a result, it is possible to improvetolerance to the burst error.

The LDPC code on which the parity interleaving that interleaves the(K+qx+y+1)-th code bit into the position of the (K+Py+x+1)-th code bithas been performed coincides with the LDPC code (hereinafter, referredto as a permutation parity check matrix) of the parity check matrixobtained by performing column permutation that permutes the(K+qx+y+1)-th column of the original parity check matrix H into the(K+Py+x+1)-th column.

As shown in FIG. 16, a pseudo-cyclic structure having the P columns (360columns in FIG. 16) as a unit appears in the parity matrix of thepermutation parity check matrix.

Here, the pseudo-cyclic structure refers to a structure in which partsexcept for a part have the cyclic structure.

The permutation parity check matrix obtained by performing the columnpermutation corresponding to the parity interleaving on the parity checkmatrix of the LDPC code defined by the standard such as DVB-T.2 is aso-called pseudo-cyclic structure not the (complete) cyclic structure inwhich the number of the elements of 1s is short by one (the element of 1becomes the element of 0) in a part of 360 rows×360 columns (shiftmatrix to be described below) which is an upper-right corner part of thepermutation parity check matrix.

Similarly to the permutation parity check matrix for the parity checkmatrix of the LDPC code defined by the standard such as DVB-T.2, thepermutation parity check matrix for the parity check matrix of the LDPCcode output from the LDPC encoder 115 has, for example, thepseudo-cyclic structure.

The permutation parity check matrix of FIG. 16 is a matrix on which thepermutation of rows (row permutation) has performed on the originalparity check matrix H in order to allow the permutation parity checkmatrix to be constructed as constitutive matrices to be described belowin addition to the column permutation corresponding to the parityinterleaving.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart for describing a process performed in the LDPCencoder 115, the bit interleaver 116 and the mapper 117 of FIG. 8.

The LDPC encoder 115 waits for the LDPC target data to be supplied fromthe BCH encoder 114, encodes the LDPC target data into the LDPC code instep S101, and supplies the LDPC code to the bit interleaver 116. Theprocess proceeds to step S102.

In step S102, the bit interleaver 116 performs the bit interleaving onthe LDPC code from the LDPC encoder 115, and supplies a symbol obtainedby performing the bit interleaving to the mapper 117. The processproceeds to step S103.

That is, in step S102, the parity interleaver 23 of the bit interleaver116 (FIG. 9) performs the parity interleaving on the LDPC code from theLDPC encoder 115, and supplies the LDPC code on which the parityinterleaving has been performed to the group-wise interleaver 24.

The group-wise interleaver 24 performs the group-wise interleaving onthe LDPC code from the parity interleaver 23, and supplies the LDPC codeto the block interleaver 25.

The block interleaver 25 performs the block interleaving on the LDPCcode on which the group-wise interleaving has been performed by thegroup-wise interleaver 24, and supplies an m-bit symbol obtained as theresult to the mapper 117.

In step S103, the mapper 117 performs the quadrature modulation bymapping the symbol from the block interleaver 25 to any one of 2′ numberof signal points determined through the modulation scheme of thequadrature modulation performed by the mapper 117, and supplies dataobtained as the result to the time interleaver 118.

As stated above, it is possible to improve the error rate when theplurality of code bits of the LDPC code is transmitted as one symbol byperforming the parity interleaving and the group-wise interleaving.

Here, for the sake of convenience in the description, although it hasbeen described in FIG. 9 that the parity interleaver 23 which is theblock that performs the parity interleaving and the group-wiseinterleaver 24 which is the block that performs the group-wiseinterleaving are individually provided, the parity interleaver 23 andthe group-wise interleaver 24 may be integrally configured.

That is, both of the parity interleaver and the group-wise interleavingcan be performed by writing and reading the code bits in and from thememory, and can be expressed by a matrix for converting an address(write address) where the code bits are written into an address (readaddress) where the code bits are read.

Accordingly, if a matrix obtained by multiplying a matrix representingthe parity interleaving and a matrix representing the group-wiseinterleaving is obtained, the code bits are converted by using thesematrices. Therefore, it is possible to obtain the result on which theparity interleaving is performed and the group-wise interleaving isperformed on the LDPC code on which the parity interleaving has beenperformed.

It is possible to integrally configure the block interleaver 25 inaddition to the parity interleaver 23 and the group-wise interleaver 24.

That is, the block interleaving performed in the block interleaver 25can also be expressed by a matrix for converting a write address wherethe LDPC code is stored into a read address.

Accordingly, if a matrix obtained by multiplying the matrix representingthe parity interleaving, the matrix representing the group-wiseinterleaving and the matrix representing the block interleaving isobtained, it is possible to collectively perform the parityinterleaving, the group-wise interleaving and the block interleaving byusing these matrices.

Configuration Example of LDPC Encoder 115

FIG. 18 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the LDPCencoder 115 of FIG. 8.

The LDPC encoder 122 of FIG. 8 also has the same configuration.

As described in FIGS. 12 and 13, in the standard such as DVB-T.2, twotypes of LDPC codes having the code lengths N of 64,800 bits and 16,200bits are defined.

Eleven code rates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9and 9/10 are defined for the LDPC code having the code length N of64,800 bits, and tens code rates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4,4/5, 5/6 and 8/9 are defined for the LDPC code having the code length Nof 16,200 bits (FIGS. 12 and 13).

For example, the LDPC encoder 115 can perform encoding (error-correctionencoding) using the LDPC codes of the respective code rates which havethe code lengths N of 64,800 bits and 16,200 bits according to theparity check matrix H provided for each the code lengths N and each coderate.

The LDPC encoder 115 includes an encoding unit 601, and a storage unit602.

The encoding unit 601 includes a code rate setting module 611, aninitial value table reading module 612, a parity check matrix generatingmodule 613, an information bit reading module 614, an encoding paritycalculating module 615, and a control module 616. The encoding unitperforms the LDPC encoding on the LDPC target data supplied to the LDPCencoder 115, and supplies the LDPC code obtained as the result to thebit interleaver 116 (FIG. 8).

That is, the code rate setting module 611 sets the code length N and thecode rate of the LDPC code depending on, for example, an operation inputof the operator.

The initial value table reading module 612 reads a parity check matrixinitial value table to be described below, which corresponds to the codelength N and the code rate set by the code rate setting module 611, fromthe storage unit 602.

The parity check matrix generating module 613 generates the parity checkmatrix H by arranging the elements of 1s of the information matrix H_(A)corresponding to the information length K (=code length N−parity lengthM) according to the code rate and the code length N set by the code ratesetting module 611 for every 360 columns (unit size P) in the columndirection based on the parity check matrix initial value table read bythe initial value table reading module 612, and stores the generatedparity check matrix in the storage unit 602.

The information bit reading module 614 reads (extracts) the informationbits having the information length K from the LDPC target data suppliedto the LDPC encoder 115.

The encoding parity calculating module 615 reads the parity check matrixH generated by the parity check matrix generating module 613 from thestorage unit 602, and generates the codeword (LDPC code) by calculatingthe parity bits with respect to the information bits read by theinformation bit reading module 614 based on the predetermined expressionby using the parity check matrix H.

The control module 616 controls the respective blocks constituting theencoding unit 601.

For example, a plurality of parity check matrix initial value tablescorresponding to the plurality of code rates shown in FIGS. 12 and 13for the code lengths N of 64,800 bits and 16,200 bits is stored in thestorage unit 602. The storage unit 602 temporarily stores necessary datain the process of the encoding unit 601.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart for describing an example of the process of theLDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 18.

In step S201, the code rate setting module 611 determines (sets) thecode length N and the code rate r for performing the LDPC encoding.

In step S202, the initial value table reading module 612 reads apredetermined parity check matrix initial value table corresponding tothe code length N and the code rate r determined by the code ratesetting module 611 from the storage unit 602.

In step S203, the parity check matrix generating module 613 obtains(generates) the parity check matrix H of the LDPC code having the codelength N and the code rate r determined by the code rate setting module611 by using the parity check matrix initial value table read from thestorage unit 602 by the initial value table reading module 612, andstores the obtained parity check matrix in the storage unit 602.

In step S204, the information bit reading module 614 reads theinformation bits having the information length K (=N×r) corresponding tothe code length N and the code rate r determined by the code ratesetting module 611 from the LDPC target data supplied to the LDPCencoder 115, reads the parity check matrix H obtained by the paritycheck matrix generating module 613 from the storage unit 602, andsupplies the read information bits and the parity check matrix to theencoding parity calculating module 615.

In step S205, the encoding parity calculating module 615 calculates theparity bits of the codeword c satisfying Expression (8) by using theparity check matrix H and the information bits from the information bitreading module 614.

Hc ^(T)=0  (8)

In Expression (8), c represents a row vector as the codeword (LDPCcode), and c^(T) represents the transpose of the row vector c.

Here, as stated above, a part of the information bits of the row vectorc as the LDPC code (one codeword) is represented as a row vector A, andwhen a part of the parity bits is represented by a row vector T, the rowvector c can be expressed by the expression c=[A|T] by using the rowvector A as the information bits and the row vector T as the paritybits.

When the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H=[H_(A)|H_(T)]has the dual diagonal structure shown in FIG. 11, the parity checkmatrix H and the row vector c=[A|T] as the LDPC code are necessary tosatisfy the expression Hc^(T)=0, and the row vector T as the parity bitsconstituting the row vector c=[A|T] satisfying the expression Hc^(T)=0can be sequentially obtained by sequentially converting the elements ofthe respective rows into zero from the elements of the first row of thecolumn vector Hc^(T) in the expression Hc^(T)=0.

The encoding parity calculating module 615 obtains the parity bits T forthe information bits A from the information bit reading module 614, andoutputs the codeword c=[A|T] expressed by the information bits A and theparity bits T as the result of the LDPC encoding of the information bitsA.

Thereafter, in step S206, the control module 616 determines whether ornot the LDPC encoding has ended. In step S206, when it is determinedthat the LDPC encoding has not ended, that is, when, for example, theLDPC target data to be subject to the LDPC encoding is still present,the process returns to step S201 (or step S204), and thereinafter, theprocesses of step S201 (or step S204) to step S206 are repeated.

In step S206, when it is determined that the LDPC encoding has ended,that is, when, for example, the LDPC target data to be subject to theLDPC encoding is not present, the LDPC encoder 115 ends the process.

As mentioned above, the parity check matrix initial value tablecorresponding to the code rates r and the code lengths N is provided,and the LDPC encoder 115 performs the LDPC encoding with a predeterminedcode length N and a predetermined cord rate r by using the parity checkmatrix H generated from the parity check matrix initial value tablecorresponding to the predetermined code length N and the predeterminedcode rate r.

Example of Parity Check Matrix Initial Value Table

The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which thepositions of the elements of 1s of the information matrix H_(A) (FIG.10) of the parity check matrix H corresponding to the information lengthK depending on the code rate r and the code length N of the LDPC code(LDPC code defined by the parity check matrix H) are represented forevery 360 columns (unit size P), and is previously created for eachparity check matrix H of each code length N and each code rate r.

That is, in the parity check matrix initial value table, at least thepositions of the elements of 1s of the information matrix H_(A) arerepresented for every 360 columns (unit size P).

As the parity check matrix H, there are a parity check matrix which isdefined by DVB-T.2 and in which (all of) the parity matrices H_(T) havethe dual diagonal structure, and a parity check matrix which issuggested by CRC/ETRI and in which a part of the parity matrix H_(T) hasthe dual diagonal structure and the remaining part has a diagonal matrix(unit matrix).

Hereinafter, an expression method of a parity check matrix initial valuetable representing the parity check matrix which is defined by DVB-T.2and in which the parity matrix H_(T) has the dual diagonal structure isreferred to as a DVB method, and an expression method of a parity checkmatrix initial value table representing the parity check matrixsuggested by CRC/ETRI is referred to as a ETRI method.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table of the DVB method.

That is, FIG. 20 shows a parity check matrix initial value table for aparity check matrix H which is defined by the standard of DVB-T.2 andhas a code length N of 16,200 bits and a code rate (code rate describedin DVB-T.2) r of 1/4.

The parity check matrix generating module 613 (FIG. 18) obtains theparity check matrix H by using the parity check matrix initial valuetable of the DVB method as will be described below.

FIG. 21 is a diagram for describing a method of obtaining the paritycheck matrix H from the parity check matrix initial value table of theDVB method.

That is, FIG. 21 is a parity check matrix initial value table for aparity check matrix H which is defined by the standard of DVB-T.2 andhas a code length N of 16,200 bits and a code rate r of 2/3.

The parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB method is a tablein which the positions of all of the elements of 1s of the informationmatrix H_(A) corresponding to the information length K in accordancewith the code rate r and the code length N of the LDPC code arerepresented for every 360 columns (unit size P), and row numbers of theelements of 1s of the (1+360×(i−1))-th column of the parity check matrixH (row numbers in which a row number of the first row of the paritycheck matrix H is zero) are arranged in the i-th row by the number of acolumn weight of the (1+360×(i−1))-th column.

Here, since the parity check matrix H_(T) (FIG. 10) of the parity checkmatrix H of the DVB method corresponding to the parity length M isdetermined to have the dual diagonal structure as shown in FIG. 15, ifthe information matrix H_(A) (FIG. 10) corresponding to the informationlength K can be obtained using the parity check matrix initial valuetable, it is possible to obtain the parity check matrix H.

A row number k+1 of the parity check matrix initial value table of theDVB method is different depending on the information length K.

The relationship of Expression (9) is established between theinformation length K and the row number k+1 of the parity check matrixinitial value table.

K=(k+1)×360  (9)

Here, 360 of Expression (9) is the unit size P described in FIG. 16.

In the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 21, thirteenvalues are arranged from the first row to the third row, and threevalues are arranged from the fourth row to the (k+1)-th row (30th row inFIG. 21).

Accordingly, the column weight of the parity check matrix H obtainedfrom the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 21 is 13 fromthe first column to the (1+360×(3−1)−1)-th column, and is 3 from the(1+360×(3−1))-th column to the K-th column.

The first row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 21is 0, 2084, 1613, 1548, 1286, 1460, 3196, 4297, 2481, 3369, 3451, 4620,and 2622, and this means that the elements of the rows having rownumbers of 0, 2084, 1613, 1548, 1286, 1460, 3196, 4297, 2481, 3369,3451, 4620, and 2622 are 1s (and other elements are 0s) in the firstcolumn of parity check matrix H.

The second row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 21is 1, 122, 1516, 3448, 2880, 1407, 1847, 3799, 3529, 373, 971, 4358, and3108, and this means that the elements of the rows having row numbers of1, 122, 1516, 3448, 2880, 1407, 1847, 3799, 3529, 373, 971, 4358, and3108 are 1s in the (361(=1+360×(2−1)))-th row of the parity check matrixH.

As stated above, in the parity check matrix initial value table, thepositions of the elements of 1s of the information matrix H_(A) of theparity check matrix H are represented for every 360 columns.

Columns other than the (1+360×(i−1))-th column of the parity checkmatrix H, that is, the respective columns from the (2+360×(i−1))-thcolumn to the (360×i)-th column are arranged by periodicallycyclic-shifting the elements of 1s of the (1+360×(i−1))-th columndetermined by the parity check matrix initial value table in the lowerdirection (lower direction of the columns) according to the paritylength M.

That is, for example, the (2+360×(i−1))-th column is obtained bycyclic-shifting the (1+360×(i−1))-th column in the lower direction byM/360(=q), and the next (3+360×(i−1))-th column is obtained bycyclic-shifting ((2+360×(i−1))-th column obtained by cyclic-shifting the(1+360×(i−1))-th column in the lower direction by 2×M/360(=2×q) in thelower direction by M/360(=q).

When the value of the j-th column (the j-th column from the left) of thei-th row (i-th row from the top) of the parity check matrix initialvalue table is represented as h_(i, j), and a row number of a j-thelement of 1 of the w-th column of the parity check matrix H isrepresented as H_(w-j), the row number H_(w-j) of the element of 1 ofthe w-th column which is a column other than the (1+360×(i−1))-th columnof the parity check matrix H can be obtained using Expression (10).

H _(w-j)=mod{h _(i,j)+mod((w−1),P)×q,M)  (10)

Where, mod(x, y) means a remainder obtained by dividing x by y.

In the first embodiment, P is the aforementioned unit size, and is 360as in the standard of, for example, DVB-S.2, DVB-T.2 and DVB-C.2.Furthermore, q is a value of M/360 obtained by dividing the paritylength M by the unit size P (=360).

The parity check matrix generating module 613 (FIG. 18) specifies therow number of the element of 1 of the (1+360×(i−1))-th column of theparity check matrix H by using the parity check matrix initial valuetable.

Moreover, the parity check matrix generating module 613 (FIG. 18)obtains the row number H_(w-j) of the element of 1 of the w-th columnwhich is the column other than the (1+360×(i−1))-th column of the paritycheck matrix H according to Expression (10), and the parity check matrixH having the element of 1 of the row number as obtained above isgenerated.

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing the structure of the parity check matrix ofthe ETRI method.

The parity check matrix of the ETRI method includes an A matrix, a Bmatrix, a C matrix, a D matrix, and a Z matrix.

The A matrix is a matrix on an upper left side of the parity checkmatrix which is expressed as information length K of LDPC code=codelength N×code rate r and a predetermined value g and has g rows and kcolumns.

The B matrix is a matrix which has g rows and g columns and has a dualdiagonal structure which is adjacent to a right side of the A matrix.

The C matrix is a matrix which has N−K−g rows and K+g columns and isadjacent to a lower side of the A matrix and the B matrix.

The D matrix is a unit matrix which has N−K−g rows and N−K−g columns andis adjacent to a right side of the C matrix.

The Z matrix is a zero matrix (0 matrix) which has g rows and N−K−gcolumns and is adjacent to a right side of the B matrix.

In the parity check matrix of the ETRI method including the A matrix tothe D matrix and the Z matrix described above, a part of the A matrixand the C matrix constitutes the information matrix, and the remainingpart of the B matrix and the C matrix, the D matrix and the Z matrixconstitute the parity matrix.

Since the B matrix is the matrix having the dual diagonal structure andthe D matrix is the unit matrix, a part (a part of the B matrix) of theparity matrix of the parity check matrix of the ETRI method has the dualdiagonal structure, and the remaining part thereof (a part of the Dmatrix) is the diagonal matrix (unit matrix).

Similarly to the information matrix of the parity check matrix of theDVB method, the A matrix and the C matrix have the cyclic structure forevery 360 columns (unit size P), and in the parity check matrix initialvalue table of the ETRI method, the positions of the elements of 1s ofthe A matrix and the C matrix are represented for every 360 columns.

Here, as described above, since a part of the A matrix and the C matrixconstitutes the information matrix, in the parity check matrix initialvalue table of the ETRI method in which the positions of the elements of1s of the A matrix and the C matrix are represented for every 360columns, at least the positions of the elements of 1s of the informationmatrix can be represented for every 360 columns.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table of the ETRI method.

That is, FIG. 23 shows an example of the parity check matrix initialvalue table for the parity check matrix having a code length N of 50bits and a code rate r of 1/2.

The parity check matrix initial value table of the ETRI method is atable in which the positions of the elements of 1s of the A matrix andthe C matrix are represented for each unit size P, and the row numbersof the elements of 1s of the (1+P×(i−1))-th column of the parity checkmatrix (the row numbers in which the row numbers of the first row of theparity check matrix are 0s) are arranged in the i-th column by thecolumn weight of the columns of the (1+P×(i−1))-th column.

Here, for the sake of convenience in the description, the unit size Pis, for example, 5.

As parameters of the parity check matrix of the ETRI method, there areg=M₁, M₂, Q₁, and Q₂.

g=M₁ is a parameter for determining the size of the B matrix, and is avalue of a multiple of the unit size P. When the performance of the LDPCcode is changed by adjusting g=M₁ and the parity check matrix isdetermined, a predetermined value is adjusted. Here, it is assumed thatg=M₁, and the unit size P=5 multiplied by 3=15.

M₂ is a value M-M₁ which is the parity length M minus M₁.

Here, since the information length K is N×r=50×1/2=25 and the paritylength M is N−K=50−25=25, M₂ is M−M₁=25−15=10.

Q₁ is obtained according to the expression Q₁=M₁/P, and represents thenumber of shifts (the number of rows) in the cyclic shifting in the Amatrix.

That is, the columns other than the (1+P×(i−1))-th column of the Amatrix of the parity check matrix of the ETRI method, that is, therespective columns from the (2+P×(i−1))-th column to the (P×i)-th columnare arranged by periodically cyclic-shifting the elements of 1s of the(1+360×(i−1))-th columns determined by the parity check matrix initialvalue table in the lower direction (lower direction of the columns), andQ₁ represents the number of shifts in the cyclic shifting in the Amatrix.

Q₂ is obtained according to the expression Q₂=M₂/P, and represents thenumber of shifts (the number of rows) in the cyclic shifting in the Cmatrix.

That is, the columns other than the (1+P×(i−1))-th column of the Cmatrix of the parity check matrix of the ETRI method, that is, therespective columns from the (2+P×(i−1))-th column to the (P×i)-th columnare arranged by periodically cyclic-shifting the elements of 1s of the(1+360×(i−1))-th column determined by the parity check matrix initialvalue table in the lower direction (lower direction of the columns), andQ₂ represents the number of shifts in the cyclic shifting in the Cmatrix.

Here, Q₁ is M₁/P=15/5=3, and Q₂ is M₂/P=10/5=2.

In the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, three valuesare arranged in the first row and the second row, and one value isarranged from the third row to the fifth row. According to thearrangement of these values, the column weight of the parity checkmatrix obtained from the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG.23 is 3 from the first column to the (1+5×(2−1)−1)-th column, and is 1from the (1+5×(2−1))-th column to the fifth column.

That is, the first row of the parity check matrix initial value table ofFIG. 23 is 2, 6, and 18, and this means that the elements of therespective rows having the row numbers of 2, 6, and 18 are 1s (and otherelements are 0s) in the first column of the parity check matrix.

In this case, since the A matrix is a matrix in 15 rows and 25 columns(g rows and K columns) and the C matrix is the matrix in 10 rows and 40columns (N−K−g rows and K+g columns), the rows having row numbers of 0to 14 of the parity check matrix are the rows of the A matrix, and therows having row numbers of 15 to 24 of the parity check matrix are rowsof the C matrix.

Accordingly, among the rows having the row numbers of 2, 6 and 18(hereinafter, described as the rows #2, #6, and #18), the rows #2 and #6are the rows of the A matrix, and the row #18 is the row of the Cmatrix.

The second row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23is 2, 10, and 19, and this means that the elements of the rows #2, #10,and #19 are 1s in the 6(=1+5×(2−1))-th column of the parity checkmatrix.

Here, the rows #2 and #10 of the rows #2, #10, and #19 in the6(=1+5×(2−1))-th column of the parity check matrix are the rows of the Amatrix, and the row #19 is the row of the C matrix.

The third row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23is 22, and this means that the elements of the row #22 in the11(=1+5×(3−1))-th row of the parity check matrix are 1s.

Here, the row #22 in the 11(=1+5×(3−1))-th row of the parity checkmatrix is the row of the C matrix.

Similarly, 19 of the fourth row of the parity check matrix initial valuetable of FIG. 23 means that the elements of the row #19 in the16(=1+5×(4-1))-th column of the parity check matrix are 1s, and 15 ofthe fifth row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23means that the elements of the row #15 in the 21(=1+5×(5-1))-th columnare 1s.

As stated above, in the parity check matrix initial value table, thepositions of the elements of 1s of the A matrix and the C matrix of theparity check matrix are represented for each unit size P=5.

The columns other than the (1+5×(i−1))-th column of the A matrix and theC matrix of the parity check matrix, that is, the respective columnsfrom the (2+5×(i−1))-th column to the (5×i)-th column are arranged byperiodically cyclic-shifting the elements of 1s of the (1+5×(i−1))-thcolumns determined by the parity check matrix initial value table in thelower direction (lower direction of the columns) according to theparameters Q₁ and Q₂.

That is, for example, the (2+5×(i−1))-th column of the A matrix isobtained by cyclic-shifting the (1+5×(i−1))-th column in the lowerdirection by Q₁(=3), and the next (3+5×(i−1))-th column is obtained bycyclic-shifting the (2+5×(i−1))-th column obtained by cyclic shiftingthe (1+5×(i−1))-th column in the lower direction by 2×Q₁(=2×3) in thelower direction by Q₁.

For example, the (2+5×(i−1))-th column of the C matrix is obtained bycyclic-shifting the (1+5×(i−1))-th column in the lower direction byQ₂(=2), and the next (3+5×(i−1))-th column is obtained bycyclic-shifting the (2+5×(i−1))-th column obtained by cyclic-shiftingthe (1+5×(i−1))-th column in the lower direction by 2×Q₂(=2×2) in thelower direction by Q₂.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing the A matrix generated from the paritycheck matrix initial value table of FIG. 23.

In the A matrix of FIG. 24, according to the first row of the paritycheck matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, the elements of the rows #2and #6 of the 1(=1+5×(1−1))-st column are 1s.

Moreover, the respective columns from the 2(=2+5×(1-1))-nd column to the5(=5+5×(1-1))-th column are obtained by cyclic-shifting the immediatelyprevious columns in the lower direction by Q₁=3.

In the A matrix of FIG. 24, according to the second row of the paritycheck matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, the elements of the rows #2and #10 of the 6(=1+5×(2−1))-th column are 1s.

The respective columns from the 7(=2+5×(2−1))-th column to the10(=5+5×(2−1))-th column are obtained by cyclic-shifting the immediatelyprevious columns in the lower direction by Q₁=3.

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing the parity interleaving on the B matrix.

The parity check matrix generating module 613 (FIG. 18) generates the Amatrix by using the parity check matrix initial value table, andarranges the B matrix having the dual diagonal structure so as to beadjacent to the right side of the A matrix. The parity check matrixgenerating module 613 regards the B matrix as the parity matrix, andperforms the parity interleaving such that the adjacent elements of 1sof the B matrix having the dual diagonal structure are separated fromeach other by the unit size P=5 in the row direction.

FIG. 25 shows the B matrix and the A matrix on which the parityinterleaving has been performed on the B matrix.

FIG. 26 is a diagram showing the C matrix generated from the paritycheck matrix initial value table of FIG. 23.

In the C matrix of FIG. 26, according to the first row of the paritycheck matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, the elements of the row #18of the 1(=1+5×(1−1))-st column of the parity check matrix are 1s.

The respective columns from the 2(=2+5×(1-1))-nd column to the5(=5+5×(1−1))-th column of the C matrix are obtained by cyclic-shiftingthe immediately previous columns in the lower direction by Q₂=2.

In the C matrix of FIG. 26, according to the second row to the fifth rowof the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, the elementsof the row #19 of the 6(=1+5×(2−1))-th column of the parity checkmatrix, the row #22 of the 11(=1+5×(3−1))-th column, the row #19 of the16(=1+5×(4−1))-th column, and the row #15 of the 21(=1+5×(5-1))-stcolumn are 1s.

The respective columns from the 7(=2+5×(2−1))-th column to the10(=5+5×(2−1))-th column, the respective columns from the12(=2+5×(3-1))-th column to the 15(=5+5×(3−1))-th column, the respectivecolumns from the 17(=2+5×(4−1))-th column to the 20(=5+5×(4−1))-thcolumn, and the respective columns from the 22(=2+5×(5−1))-nd column tothe 25(=5+5×(5−1))-th column are obtained by cyclic shifting theimmediately previous columns in the lower direction by Q₂=2.

The parity check matrix generating module 613 (FIG. 18) generates the Cmatrix by using the parity check matrix initial value table, andarranges the C matrix under the A matrix and the B matrix (on which theparity interleaving has been performed).

Further, the parity check matrix generating module 613 arranges the Zmatrix so as to be adjacent to the right side of the B matrix, arrangesthe D matrix to be adjacent to the right side of the C matrix, andgenerates the parity check matrix shown in FIG. 26.

FIG. 27 is a diagram showing the parity interleaving on the D matrix.

After the parity check matrix of FIG. 26 is generated, the parity checkmatrix generating module 613 regards the D matrix as the parity matrix,and performs the parity interleaving on only the D matrix such that theelements of 1s of the odd-number rows and the next even-number rows ofthe D matrix of the unit matrix are separated from each other by theunit size P=5.

FIG. 27 shows the parity check matrix on which the parity interleavinghas been performed on the D matrix for the parity check matrix of FIG.26.

(The encoding parity calculating module 615 (FIG. 18) of) the LDPCencoder 115 performs the LDPC encoding (generates the LDPC code) byusing, for example, the parity check matrix of FIG. 27.

Here, the LDPC code generated using the parity check matrix of FIG. 27is the LDPC code on which the parity interleaving has been performed,and thus, it is not necessary to perform the parity interleaving on theLDPC code generated using the parity check matrix of FIG. 27 in theparity interleaver 23 (FIG. 9).

FIG. 28 is a diagram showing a parity check matrix obtained byperforming the column permutation as the parity interleaving thatreturns the parity interleaving to the original state on the B matrix, apart of the C matrix (a part of the C matrix which is arranged under theB matrix) and the D matrix of the parity check matrix of FIG. 27.

In the LDPC encoder 115, it is possible to perform the LDPC encoding(generate the LDPC code) by using the parity check matrix of FIG. 28.

When the LDPC encoding is performed using the parity check matrix ofFIG. 28, the LDPC code on which the parity interleaving has not beenperformed is obtained according to the LDPC encoding. Accordingly, whenthe LDPC encoding is performed using the parity check matrix of FIG. 28,the parity interleaving is performed in the parity interleaver 23 (FIG.9).

FIG. 29 is a diagram showing a transformation check matrix obtained byperforming the row permutation on the parity check matrix of FIG. 27.

As will be described below, the transformation check matrix is a matrixrepresented by combining a unit matrix of P×P, a quasi-unit matrix inwhich one or more 1s of 1s of the unit matrix are 0s, a shift matrixobtained by cyclic-shifting the unit matrix or the quasi-unit matrix, asum matrix which is the sum of two or more matrices of the unit matrix,the quasi-unit matrix and the shift matrix, and a 0 matrix of P×P.

By using the transformation check matrix in the decoding of the LDPCcode, it is possible to adopt an architecture in which the check nodecalculation and the variable node calculation are simultaneouslyperformed P times in the decoding of the LDPC code, as will be describedbelow.

New LDPC Code

The standard of the terrestrial digital television broadcasting calledATSC 3.0 is currently being developed.

Now, a renewed LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a new LDPC code)capable of being used in data transmission other than ATSC 3.0 will bedescribed.

For example, as the new LDPC code, it is possible to adopt the LDPC codeof the ETRI method or the LDPC code of the DVB method which has the unitsize P of 360 which is the same as that of DVB-T.2, and corresponds tothe parity check matrix having the cyclic structure.

The LDPC encoder 115 (FIG. 8 and FIG. 18) can perform the LDPC encodingon the new LDPC code by using the parity check matrix obtained from theparity check matrix initial value table of the new LDPC code having acode length N of 16 k bits or 64 k bits and a code rate r of any one of5/15, 6, 15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15.

In this case, the parity check matrix initial value table of the newLDPC code is stored in the storage unit 602 of the LDPC encoder 115(FIG. 8).

FIG. 30 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrix of thenew LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a Sony code of (16 k, 8/15))which has a code length N of 16 k bits and a code rate r of 8/15 and issuggested by the present applicant.

FIG. 31 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrix of thenew LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a Sony code of (16 k, 10/15))which has a code length N of 16 k bits and a code rate r of 10/15 and issuggested by the present applicant.

FIG. 32 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrix of thenew LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a Sony code of (16 k, 12/15))which has a code length N of 16 k bits and a code rate r of 12/15 and issuggested by the present applicant.

FIGS. 33, 34 and 35 are diagrams showing an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrixof the new LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a Sony code of (64 k,7/15)) which has a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate of 7/15and is suggested by the present applicant.

FIG. 34 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 33, and FIG. 35 is a drawingsubsequent to FIG. 34.

FIGS. 36, 37 and 38 are diagrams showing an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrixof the new LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a Sony code of (64 k,9/15)) which has a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate r of 9/15and is suggested by the present applicant.

FIG. 37 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 36, and FIG. 38 is a drawingsubsequent to FIG. 37.

FIGS. 39, 40, 41 and 42 are diagrams showing an example of the paritycheck matrix initial value table of the DVB method for the parity checkmatrix of the new LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a Sony code of(64 k, 11/15)) which has a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate rof 11/15 and is suggested by the present applicant.

FIG. 40 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 39, FIG. 41 is a drawingsubsequent to FIG. 40, and FIG. 42 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 41.

FIGS. 43, 44, 45 and 46 are diagrams showing an example of the paritycheck matrix initial value table of the DVB method for the parity checkmatrix of the new LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a Sony code of(64 k, 13/15)) which has a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate rof 13/15 and is suggested by the present applicant.

FIG. 44 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 43, FIG. 45 is a drawingsubsequent to FIG. 44, and FIG. 46 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 45.

FIGS. 47 and 48 are diagrams showing an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrixof the new LDPC code (hereinafter, a Samsung code of (64 k, 6/15)) whichhas a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate r of 6/15 and issuggested by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

FIG. 48 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 47.

FIGS. 49, 50 and 51 are diagrams showing an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrixof the new LDPC code (hereinafter, a Samsung code of (64 k, 8/15)) whichhas a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate r of 8/15 and issuggested by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

FIG. 50 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 49, and FIG. 51 is a drawingsubsequent to FIG. 50.

FIGS. 52, 53 and 54 are diagrams showing an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrixof the new LDPC code (hereinafter, a Samsung code of (64 k, 12/15))which has a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate r of 12/15 and issuggested by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

FIG. 53 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 52, and FIG. 54 is a drawingsubsequent to FIG. 53.

FIG. 55 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrix of thenew LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a LGE code of (16 k, 6/15))which has a code length N of 16 k bits and a code rate r of 6/15 and issuggested by LGE Inc.

FIG. 56 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrix of thenew LDPC code (hereinafter, a LGE code O (16 k, 7/15)) which has a codelength N of 16 k bits and a code rate r of 7/15 and is suggested by LGEInc.

FIG. 57 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrix of thenew LDPC code (hereinafter, a LGE code of (16 k, 9/15)) which has a codelength N of 16 k bits and a code rate r of 9/15 and is suggested by LGEInc.

FIG. 58 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrix of thenew LDPC code (hereinafter, a LGE code of (16 k, 11/15)) which has acode length N of 16 k bits and a code rate r of 11/15 and is suggestedby LGE Inc.

FIG. 59 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrix of thenew LDPC code (hereinafter, a LGE code of (16 k, 13/15)) which has acode length N of 16 k bits and a code rate r of 13/15 and is suggestedby LGE Inc.

FIGS. 60, 61 and 62 are diagrams showing an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrixof the new LDPC code (hereinafter, a LGE code of (64 k, 10/15)) whichhas a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate r of 10/15 and issuggested by LGE Inc.

FIG. 61 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 60, and FIG. 62 is a drawingsubsequent to FIG. 61.

FIGS. 63, 64 and 65 are diagrams showing an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table of the DVB method for the parity check matrixof the new LDPC code (hereinafter, a NERC code of (64 k, 9/15)) whichhas a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate r of 9/15 and issuggested by the NERC.

FIG. 64 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 63, and FIG. 65 is a drawingsubsequent to FIG. 64.

FIG. 66 is a diagram showing an example of the parity check matrixinitial value table of the ETRI method for the parity check matrix ofthe new LDPC code (hereinafter, a ETRI code of (16 k, 5/15)) which has acode length N of 16 k bits and a code rate r of 5/15 and is suggested byCRC/ETRI.

FIGS. 67 and 68 are diagrams showing an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table of the ETRI method for the parity checkmatrix of the new LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a ETRI code of(64 k, 5/15)) which has a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate rof 5/15 and is suggested by CRC/ETRI.

FIG. 68 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 67.

FIGS. 69 and 70 are diagrams showing an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table of the ETRI method for the parity checkmatrix of the new LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a ETRI code of(64 k, 6/15)) which has a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate rof 6/15 and is suggested by CRC/ETRI.

FIG. 70 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 69.

FIGS. 71 and 72 are diagrams showing an example of the parity checkmatrix initial value table of the ETRI method for the parity checkmatrix of the new LDPC code (hereinafter, referred to as a ETRI code of(64 k, 7/15)) which has a code length N of 64 k bits and a code rate rof 7/15 and is suggested by CRC/ETRI.

FIG. 72 is a drawing subsequent to FIG. 71.

Among the new LDPC codes, particularly, the Sony codes are LDPC codeshaving good performance.

Here, the LDPC codes having good performance are LDPC codes obtainedfrom an appropriate parity check matrix H.

For example, the appropriate parity check matrix H is a parity checkmatrix which has a smaller BER (bit error rate) (and FER (frame errorrate)) and satisfies a predetermined condition when the LDPC codeobtained from the parity check matrix H is transmitted with a lowE_(s)/N₀ or E_(b)/N_(o) (the ratio of the signal power to the noisepower per one bit).

It is possible to obtain the appropriate parity check matrix H byperforming, for example, a simulation that measures a BER when the LDPCcodes obtained from various parity check matrices satisfying apredetermined condition are transmitted with a low E_(s)/N_(o).

As the predetermined conditions to be satisfied by the appropriateparity check matrix H, there are a condition in which an analysis resultobtained by a code performance analysis method called density evolutionis favorable and a condition in which a loop of the elements of 1scalled cycle-4 is not present.

In the information matrix H_(A), when the elements of 1s areconcentrated as in cycle-4, it is considered that the decodingperformance of the LDPC code is degraded, and thus, a condition in whichcycle-4 is not present is necessary as the predetermined condition to besatisfied by the appropriate parity check matrix H.

It is possible to appropriately determine the predetermined condition tobe satisfied by the appropriate parity check matrix H in order toimprove the decoding performance of the LDPC code or easily perform(simplify) the decoding process of the LDPC code.

FIGS. 73 and 74 are diagrams for describing the density evolution thatobtains the analysis result as the predetermined condition to besatisfied by the appropriate parity check matrix H.

The density evolution is a code analysis method of calculating anexpectation value of an error probability of an ensemble of LDPC codeswhich is specified by a degree sequence to be described below and has acode length N of ∞.

For example, when the variance of noise is steadily increased from zeroon an AWGN channel, an expectation value of an error possibility of acertain ensemble is initially zero, but when the variance of noise isequal to or greater than a certain threshold, the expectation valuethereof does not become zero.

According to the density evolution, it is possible to determine if theperformance of the ensemble is good or bad (appropriateness of theparity check matrix) by comparing the expectation value with a threshold(hereinafter, referred to as a performance threshold) of the variance ofnoise in which the expectation value of the error probability does notbecome zero.

With regard to a specific LDPC code, when an ensemble to which the LDPCcode belongs is determined and the density evolution is performed, it ispossible to roughly predict performance of the LDPC code.

Accordingly, if the ensemble having good performance is found, it ispossible to find the LDPC code having good performance from the LDPCcodes belonging to the ensemble.

Here, the aforementioned degree sequence means what percentage of thevariable nodes or the check nodes having the respective weight valuesare present in the LDPC code having the code length N.

For example, a regular (3, 6) LDPC code having a code rate of 1/2belongs to an ensemble specified by the degree sequence in which theweights (column weights) of all variable nodes are 3 and the weights(row weights) of all check nodes are 6.

FIG. 73 shows a Tanner graph of such an ensemble.

In the Tanner graph of FIG. 73, variable nodes shown by a circle (0mark) in the drawing are present by an N number equal to the code lengthN, and check nodes shown by a square (square mark) in the drawing arepresent by a N/2 number equal to a multiplication value obtained bymultiplying the code length N by the code rate of 1/2.

Three edges equal to the column weight are connected to the respectivevariable nodes, and thus, edges connected to the N number of variablenodes are present by a 3N number in total.

Six edges equal to the row weight are connected to the respective checknodes, and thus, edges connected to N/2 number of check nodes arepresent by a 3N number in total.

Furthermore, in the Tanner graph of FIG. 73, one interleaver is present.

The interleaver randomly rearranges 3N number of edges connected to Nnumber of variable nodes, and connects the rearranged edges to any oneof 3N number of edges connected to N/2 number of check nodes.

As a rearrangement pattern in which 3N number of edges connected to Nnumber of variable nodes are rearranged in the interleaver, there are(3N)!(=(3N)×(3N−1)× . . . ×1) number of methods. Accordingly, anensemble specified by the degree sequence in which the weights of allvariable nodes are 3 and the weights of all check nodes are 6 is a setof (3N)1 number of LDPC codes.

In the simulation for obtaining the LDPC code (appropriate parity checkmatrix) having good performance, a multi-edge type ensemble is used inthe density evolution.

In the multi-edge type, the interleaver through which the edgesconnected to the variable nodes and the edges connected to the checknodes pass is divided into multiple edges, and thus, the ensemble ismore precisely specified.

FIG. 74 shows an example of the Tanner graph of the multi-edge typeensemble.

In the Tanner graph of FIG. 74, two interleavers including a firstinterleaver and a second interleaver are present.

In the Tanner graph of FIG. 74, v1 number of variable nodes of which oneedge is connected to the first interleaver and no edges are connected tothe second interleaver, and v2 number of variable nodes of which oneedge is connected to the first interleaver and two edges are connectedto the second interleaver, and v3 number of variable nodes of which noedges are connected to the first interleaver and two edges are connectedto the second interleaver are presented.

In the Tanner graph of FIG. 74, c1 number of check nodes of which twoedges are connected to the first interleaver and no edges are connectedto the second interleaver, c2 number of check nodes of which two edgesare connected to the first interleaver and two edges are connected tothe second interleaver, and c3 number of check nodes of which no edgesare connected to the first interleaver and three edges are connected tothe second interleaver are present.

The density evolution and the implementation thereof are described in,for example, “On the Design of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes within0.0045 dB of the Shannon Limit”, S. Y. Chung, G. D. Forney, T. J.Richardson, R. Urbanke, IEEE Communications Leggers, VOL. 5, NO. 2,February 2001.

In the simulation for obtaining (the parity check matrix initial valuetable of) the Sony codes, an ensemble of which a performance thresholdwhich is E_(b)/N₀ (ratio of signal power to noise power per one bit) atwhich a BER starts to be decreased (become smaller) is equal to or lessthan a predetermined value is found through the multi-edge type densityevolution, and the LDPC code capable of reducing the BER when one ormore quadrature modulation schemes such as QPSK are used is selected asthe LDPC code having good performance from the LDPC codes belonging tothe found ensemble.

The parity check matrix initial value table of the Sony codes isobtained through the simulation described above.

Therefore, according to the Sony codes obtained from the parity checkmatrix initial value table, it is possible to ensure favorablecommunication quality in data transmission.

FIG. 75 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrices H(hereinafter, described as “parity check matrices H of the Sony codes of(16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15)”) obtained from theparity check matrix initial value table of the Sony codes of (16 k,8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15).

All minimum cycle lengths of the parity check matrix H of the Sony codesof (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15) exceed the cycle-4,and thus, the cycle-4 (a loop of the elements of 1s which has a looplength of 4) is not present. Here, the minimum cycle length (girth)means the minimum value of the length of the loop (loop length)constructed by the elements of 1s of the parity check matrix H.

A performance threshold of the Sony code of (16 k, 8/15) is 0.805765, aperformance threshold of the Sony code of (16 k, 10/15) is 2.471011, anda performance threshold of the Sony code of (16 k, 12/15) is 4.269922.

In the parity check matrix H of the Sony codes of (16 k, 8/15), (16 k,10/15), and (16 k, 12/15), column weights from the first column to theKX1-th column are X1, a column weight of the KX2-th column is X2, acolumn weight of the KY1-th column is Y1, a column weight of the KY2-thcolumn is Y2, a column weight of the (M−1)-th column is 2, and a columnweight of the last column is 1.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N=16,200 bits ofthe Sony codes of (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15).

The column numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M and the column weights X1,X2, Y1, and Y2 of the parity check matrix H of the Sony codes of (16 k,8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15) are shown in FIG. 75.

Similarly to the parity check matrix described in FIGS. 12 and 13, inthe parity check matrix H of the Sony codes of (16 k, 8/15), (16 k,10/15), and (16 k, 12/15), the column weight of the column on theleading side (on the left side) tends to be large, and thus, the codebits of the Sony code on the leading side tend to have high errortolerance (have tolerance to an error).

According to the simulation performed by the present applicant,favorable BER/FER are obtained for the Sony codes of (16 k, 8/15), (16k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15), and thus, it is possible to ensurefavorable communication quality in data transmission using the Sonycodes of (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15).

FIG. 76 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix H of theSony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k,13/15).

All minimum cycle lengths of the parity check matrix H of the Sony codesof (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15) exceedthe cycle-4, and thus, the cycle-4 is not present.

A performance threshold of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15) is −0.093751, aperformance threshold of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) is 1.658523, aperformance threshold of the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) is 3.351930, anda performance threshold of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) is 5.301749.

In the parity check matrix H of the Sony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k,9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15), column weights from the firstcolumn to the KX1-th column are X1, a column weight of the KX2-th columnis X2, a column weight of the KY1-th column is Y1, a column weight ofthe KY2-th column is Y2, a column weight of the (M−1)-th column is 2,and a column weight of the last column is 1.

KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N=64,800 bits of theSony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k,13/15).

The column numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M and the column weights X1,X2, Y1, and Y2 of the parity check matrix H of the Sony codes of (64 k,7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15) are shown in FIG.76.

Similarly to the parity check matrix described in FIGS. 12 and 13, inthe parity check matrix H of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k,9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15), the column weight of the columnon the leading side (on the left side) tends to be large, and thus, thecode bits of the Sony code on the leading side tend to have high errortolerance.

According to the simulation performed by the present applicant,favorable BER/FER are obtained for the Sony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15), and thus, it is possible toensure favorable communication quality in data transmission using theSony codes of (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k,13/15).

FIG. 77 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix H of theSamsung codes of (64 k, 6/15), (64 k, 8/15), and (64 k, 12/15).

In the parity check matrix H of the Samsung codes of (64 k, 6/15), (64k, 8/15), and (64 k, 12/15), column weights from the first column to theKX1-th column are X1, a column weight of the KX2-th column is X2, acolumn weight of the KY1-th column is Y1, a column weight of the KY2-this Y2, a column weight of the (M−1)-th column is 2, and a column weightof the last column is 1.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N=64,800 bits ofthe Samsung codes of (64 k, 6/15), (64 k, 8/15), and (64 k, 12/15).

The column numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M and the column weights X1,X2, Y1, and Y2 of the parity check matrix H of the Samsung codes of (64k, 6/15), (64 k, 8/15), and (64 k, 12/15) are shown in FIG. 77.

FIG. 78 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix H of the LGEcodes of (16 k, 6/15), (16 k, 7/15), (16 k, 9/15), (16 k, 11/15), and(16 k, 13/15).

In the parity check matrix H of the LGE codes of (16 k, 6/15), (16 k,7/15), (16 k, 9/15), (16 k, 11/15), and (16 k, 13/15), column weightsfrom the first column to the KX1-th column are X1, a column weight ofthe KX2-th column is X2, a column weight of the KY1-th column is Y1, acolumn weight of the KY2-th column is Y2, a column weight of the(M−1)-th column is 2, and a column weight of the last column is 1.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N=16,200 bits ofthe LGE codes of (16 k, 6/15), (16 k, 7/15), (16 k, 9/15), (16 k,11/15), and (16 k, 13/15).

The column numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M and the column weights X1,X2, Y1, and Y2 of the parity check matrix H of the LGE codes of (16 k,6/15), (16 k, 7/15), (16 k, 9/15), (16 k, 11/15), and (16 k, 13/15) areshown in FIG. 78.

FIG. 79 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix H of the LGEcode of (64 k, 10/15).

In the parity check matrix H of the LGE code of (64 k, 10/15), a columnweight from the first column to the KX1-th column is X1, a column weightof the KX2-th column is X2, a column weight of the KY1-th column is Y1,a column weight of the KY2-th is Y2, a column weight of the (M−1)-thcolumn is 2, and a column weight of the last column is 1.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N=64,800 bits ofthe LGE code of (64 k, 10/15).

The column numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M and the column weights X1,X2, Y1, and Y2 of the parity check matrix H of the LGE code of (64 k,10/15) are shown in FIG. 79.

FIG. 80 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix H of theNERC code of (64 k, 9/15).

In the parity check matrix H of the NERC code of (64 k, 9/15), columnweights from the first column to the KX1-th column are X1, a columnweight of the KX2-th column is X2, a column weight of the KY1-th columnis Y1, a column weight of the KY2-th column is Y2, a column weight ofthe (M−1)-th column is 2, and a column weight of the last column is 1.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N=64,800 bits ofthe NERC code of (64 k, 9/15).

The column numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M and the column weights X1,X2, Y1, and Y2 of the parity check matrix H of the NERC code of (64 k,9/15) are shown in FIG. 80.

FIG. 81 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix H of theETRI code of (16 k, 5/15).

In the parity check matrix H of the ETRI code of (16 k, 5/15), aparameter g=M₁ is 720.

Since the ETRI code of (16 k, 5/15) has a code length N of 16,200 and acode rate r of 5/15, an information length K=N×r is 16,200×5/15=5,400,and a parity length M=N−K is 16,200-5,400=10,800.

A parameter M₂=M-M₁=N-K-g is 10,800−720=10,080.

Accordingly, a parameter Q₁=M₁/P is 720/360=2, and a parameter Q₂=M₂/Pis 10,080/360=28.

FIG. 82 is a diagram for describing the parity check matrix H of theETRI codes of (64 k, 5/15), (64 k, 6/15), and (64 k, 7/15).

Parameters g=M₁, M₂, Q₁ and Q₂ for the parity check matrix H of the ETRIcodes of (64 k, 5/15), (64 k, 6/15), and (64 k, 7/15) are shown in FIG.82.

Constellation

FIGS. 83 to 104 are diagrams showing an example of the type of aconstellation adopted by the transmission system of FIG. 7.

For example, in the transmission system of FIG. 7, it is possible to seta constellation to be used in MODCOD to the MODCOD which is acombination of the modulation scheme and the LDPC code.

That is, in the transmission system of FIG. 7, the LDPC code isclassified into nine types of LDPC codes having code rates r of 5/15,6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15 according to thecode rate r (regardless of the code length N), and combinations of thesenine types of LDPC codes (the LDPC codes having code rates r of 5/15,6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) and therespective modulation schemes can be adopted as the MODCOD.

In the transmission system of FIG. 7, it is possible to set one or moreconstellations to be used in one MODCOD modulation scheme to the MODCOD.

As the constellation, there are a uniform constellation (UC) in whichsignal points are uniformly arranged, and a non-uniform constellation(NUC) in which signal points are not uniformly arranged.

As the NUC, for example, there is a constellation called a 1-dimensionalM²-QAM non-uniform constellation (1D NUC) and a constellation called a2-dimensional QQAM non-uniform constellation (2D NUC).

In general, the 1D NUC can improve a BER further than the UC, and the 2DNUC can improve a BER further than the 1D NUC.

The constellation of the QPSK modulation scheme is the UC. As theconstellation of the 16-QAM, 64-QAM or 256-QAM modulation scheme, it ispossible to adopt, for example, the 2D NUC, and as the constellation ofthe 1024-QAM or 4096-QAM modulation scheme, it is possible to adopt, forexample, the 1D NUC.

Hereinafter, the NUC constellation used in the MODCOD in which themodulation scheme is a modulation scheme of mapping a m-bit symbol toany one of 2^(m) number of signal points and the code rate of the LDPCcode is r is described as a NUC_2^(m)_r.

For example, “NUC_16_6/15” refers to the NUC constellation used in theMODCOD in which the modulation scheme is a 16-QAM modulation scheme (inaddition, a modulation scheme of mapping a symbol to any one of 16signal points) and the code rate r of the LDPC code is 6/15.

In the transmission system of FIG. 7, when the modulation scheme isQPSK, the same constellation is used for the respective code rates r ofthe LDPC code.

In the transmission system of FIG. 7, when the modulation scheme is16-QAM, 64-QAM or 256-QAM, different 2D NUC constellations are used forthe code rates r of the LDPC code.

Moreover, in the transmission system of FIG. 7, when the modulationscheme is 1024-QAM or 4096-QAM, different 1D NUC constellations are usedfor the code rates r of the LDPC code.

Accordingly, as described above, when the LDPC code is classified intonine types of LDPC codes having r=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15,11/15, 12, 15, 13/15 according to the code rate r, one type ofconstellation is provided for QPSK, nine types of 2D NUC constellationsare provided for 16-QAM, 64-QAM and 256-QAM, and nine types of 1D NUCconstellations are provided for 1024-QAM and 4096-QAM.

FIG. 83 is a diagram showing examples of the 2D NUC constellations forthe nine types of LDPC codes having the code rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15,8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) when the modulation schemeis 16-QAM.

FIG. 84 is a diagram showing examples of the 2D NUC constellations forthe nine types of LDPC codes having the code rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15,8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) when the modulation schemeis 64-QAM.

FIG. 85 is a diagram showing examples of the 2D NUC constellations forthe nine types of code rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15,11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) of the LDPC codes when the modulation schemeis 256-QAM.

FIG. 86 is a diagram showing examples of the 1D NUC constellations forthe nine types of LDPC codes having the code rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15,8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) when the modulation schemeis 1024-QAM.

FIGS. 87 and 88 are diagrams showing examples of the 1D NUCconstellations for the nine types of LDPC codes having the code rates r(=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) whenthe modulation scheme is 4096-QAM.

In FIGS. 83 to 88, a horizontal axis and a vertical axis arerespectively an I axis and a Q axis, and Re{x₁} and Im{x₁} arerespectively a real part and an imaginary part of a signal point x₁, asa coordinate of the signal point x₁.

In FIGS. 83 to 88, a value described before “for CR” represents the coderate r of the LDPC code.

FIG. 89 is a diagram showing an example of the coordinate of the signalpoint of the UC that is commonly used for the nine types of code rates r(=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) of theLDPC code when the modulation scheme is QPSK.

In FIG. 89, “Input cell word y” represents a 2-bit symbol mapped to theUC of QPSK, and “Constellation point z_(q)” represents the coordinate ofa signal point z_(q). The index q of the signal point z_(q) represents adiscrete time of a symbol (a time interval between a given symbol andthe next symbol).

In FIG. 89, the coordinate of the signal point z_(q) is represented inthe form of a complex number, and i represents an imaginary unit(√(−1)).

FIG. 90 is diagram showing an example of the coordinate of the signalpoint of the 2D NUC of FIG. 83 used for the nine types of code rates r(=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) of theLDPC code when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM.

FIG. 91 is diagram showing an example of the coordinate of the signalpoint of the 2D NUC of FIG. 84 used for the nine types of code rates r(=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) of theLDPC code when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM.

FIGS. 92 and 93 are diagrams showing an example of the coordinate of thesignal point of the 2D NUC of FIG. 85 used for the nine types of coderates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15)of the LDPC code when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM.

In FIGS. 90 to 93, NUC_2^(m)_r represents the coordinate of the signalpoint of the 2D NUC used when the modulation scheme is 2^(m)-QAM and thecode rate of the LDPC code is r.

Similarly to FIG. 89, in FIGS. 90 to 93, the coordinate of the signalpoint z_(q) is represented in the form of a complex number, and irepresents an imaginary unit.

In FIGS. 90 to 93, w#k represents the coordinate of a signal point in afirst quadrant of the constellation.

In the 2D NUC, a signal point in a second quadrant of the constellationis disposed in a position where the signal point in the first quadrantis symmetrically moved with respect to the Q axis, and a signal point ina third quadrant of the constellation is disposed in a position wherethe signal point in the first quadrant is symmetrically moved withrespect to an origin. A signal point in a fourth quadrant of theconstellation is disposed in a position where the signal point in thefirst quadrant is symmetrically moved with respect to the I axis.

Here, when the modulation scheme is 2^(m)-QAM, m bits are used as onesymbol, and the one symbol is mapped to a signal corresponding to thesymbol.

The m-bit symbol is represented as, for example, an integer value of 0to 2^(m)-1. However, when b=2^(m)/4, symbols y(0), y(1), . . . , and y(2^(m)−1) that are expressed as integer values of 0 to 2^(m)−1 can beclassified into four symbols including symbols y(0) to y(b−1), y(b) toy(2b−1), y(2b) to y(3b−1), and y(3b) to y(4b−1).

In FIGS. 90 to 93, the suffix k in w#k is represented as an integervalue in a range of 0 to b−1, and w#k represents the coordinate of asignal point corresponding to a symbol y(k) in a range of symbols y(0)to y(b−1).

The coordinate of a signal point corresponding to a symbol y(k+b) in arange of symbols y(b) to y(2b−1) is represented as −conj(w#k), thecoordinate of a signal point corresponding to a symbol y(k+2b) in arange of symbols y(2b) to y(3b−1) is represented as conj(w#k), and thecoordinate of a signal point corresponding to a symbol y(k+3b) in arange of symbols y(3b) to y(4b−1) is represented as −w#k.

Here, conj(w#k) represents complex conjugates of w#k.

For example, when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM, symbols y(0), y(1), .. . , and y(15) of m=4 bits are classified into four symbols includingsymbols y(0) to y(3), y(4) to y(7), y(8) to y(11) and y(12) to y(15)since b=2⁴/4=4.

Furthermore, for example, since the symbol y(12) of the symbols y(0) toy(15) is a symbol y(k+3b)=y(0+3×4) in a range of symbols y(3b) toy(4b−1) and k=0, the coordinate of a signal point of the symbol y(12) is−w#k=−w0.

When the code rate r of the LDPC code is, for example, 9/15, since w0(NUC_16_9/15) when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM and the code rate ris 9/15 is 0.4967+1.1932i according to FIG. 90, the coordinate −w0 ofthe signal point corresponding to the symbol y(12) is −(0.4967+1.1932i).

FIG. 94 is a diagram showing an example of the coordinate of the signalpoint of the 1D NUC of FIG. 86 used for the nine types of code rates r(=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) of theLDPC code when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM.

In FIG. 94, rows of NUC_1 k_r represent values of u#k representing thecoordinate of the signal point of the 1D NUC used when the modulationscheme is 1024-QAM and the code rate of the LDPC code is r.

u#k represents a real part Re(z_(q)) and an imaginary part Im(z_(q)) ofa complex number as the coordinate of the signal point z_(q) of the 1DNUC.

FIG. 95 is a diagram showing the relationship between a symbol y of1024-QAM and u#k as the real part Re(z_(q)) and the imaginary partIm(z_(q)) of the complex number representing the coordinate of thesignal point z_(q) of the 1D NUC corresponding to the symbol y.

It is assumed that a 10-bit symbol y of 1024-QAM is represents asy_(0, q), y_(1, q), y_(2, q), y_(3, q), y_(4, q), y_(5, q), y_(6, q),y_(7, q), y_(8, q), y_(9, q) from the leading bit (most significantbit).

FIG. 95A shows the correspondence relationship between five odd-numberedbits y_(0, q), y_(2, q), y_(4, q), y_(6, q), y_(8, q) of the symbol yand u#k representing the real part Re(z_(q)) of (the coordinate of) thesignal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y.

FIG. 95B shows the correspondence relationship between fiveeven-numbered bits y_(1, q), y_(3, q), y_(5, q), y_(7, q), y_(9, q) ofthe symbol y and u#k representing the imaginary part Im(z_(q)) of (thecoordinate of) the signal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y.

When the 10-bit symbol y=(y_(0, q), y_(1, q), y_(2, q), y_(3, q),y_(4, q), y_(5, q), y_(6, q), y_(7, q), y_(8, q), y_(9, q)) of 1024-QAMis, for example, (0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0), five odd-numbered bits(y_(0, q), y_(2, q), y_(4, q), y_(6, q), y_(8, q)) are (0, 1, 0, 1, 0),and five even-numbered bits (y_(1, q), y_(3, q), y_(5, q), y_(7, q),y_(9, q)) are (0, 0, 1, 1, 0).

In FIG. 95A, the five odd-numbered bits (0, 1, 0, 1, 0) correspond tou3, and thus, the real part Re(z_(q)) of the signal point z_(q)corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) correspondsto u3.

Moreover, in FIG. 95B, the five even-numbered bits (0, 0, 1, 1, 0)correspond to u11, and thus, the imaginary part Im(z_(q)) of the signalpoint z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0)is u11.

Meanwhile, when it is assumed that the code rate r of the LDPC code is,for example, 7/15, u3 of the 1D NUC(NUC_1 k_7/15) used when themodulation scheme is 1024-QAM and the code rate r of the LDPC code is7/15 is 1.1963, and u11 is 6.9391 according to FIG. 94 described above.

Accordingly, the real part Re(z_(q)) of the signal point z_(q)corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) isu3=1.1963, and Im(z_(q)) is u11=6.9391. As a result, the coordinate of asignal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1,1, 0, 0) is represented as 1.1963+6.9391i.

FIG. 96 is a diagram showing an example of the coordinate of the signalpoint of the 1D NUC of FIGS. 87 and 88 used for the nine types of coderates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15)of the LDPC code when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM.

In FIG. 96, the respective rows represent values of u#k representing thecoordinate of the signal point of the 1D NUC used when the modulationscheme is 4096-QAM and the code rates of the LDPC code are r=5/15, 6/15,7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15.

u#k represents a real part Re(z_(q)) and an imaginary part Im(z_(q)) ofa complex number as the coordinate of the signal point z_(q) of the 1DNUC.

FIGS. 97A and 97B are diagrams showing the relationship between thesymbol y of 4096-QAM and u#k as the real part Re(z_(q)) and theimaginary part Im(z_(q)) of the complex number representing thecoordinate of the signal point z_(q) of the 1D NUC corresponding to thesymbol y.

Since a method of obtaining the coordinate of the signal point of the 1DNUC of 4096-QAM using FIGS. 96 and 97 is the same as the method ofobtaining the coordinate of the signal point of the 1D NUC of 1024-QAMusing FIGS. 94 and 95, the description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 98 is a diagram showing another example of the constellation of the2D NUC for the nine types of code rates r of the LDPC code when themodulation scheme is 16-QAM.

FIG. 99 is a diagram showing another example of the constellation of the2D NUC for the nine types of code rates r of the LDPC code when themodulation scheme is 64-QAM.

FIG. 100 is a diagram showing another example of the constellation ofthe 2D NUC for the nine types of code rates r of the LDPC code when themodulation scheme is 256-QAM.

Similarly to FIGS. 83 to 88, in FIGS. 98 to 100, a horizontal axis and avertical axis are respectively an I axis and a Q axis, and Re{x₁} andIm{x₁} represent a real part and an imaginary part of a signal point x₁as the coordinate of the signal point x₁. In FIGS. 98 to 100, valuesdescribed before “for CR” represent the code rates r of the LDPC code.

FIG. 101 is a diagram showing an example of the coordinate of the signalpoint of the 2D NUC of FIG. 98 used for the nine types of code rates ofthe LDPC code when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM.

FIG. 102 is a diagram showing an example of the coordinate of the signalpoint of the 2D NUC of FIG. 99 used for the nine types of code rates ofthe LDPC code when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM.

FIGS. 103 and 104 are diagrams showing an example of the coordinate ofthe signal point of the 2D NUC of FIG. 100 used for the nine types ofcode rates of the LDPC code when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM.

In FIGS. 101 to 104, NUC_2^(m)_r represents the coordinate of the signalpoint of the 2D NUC used when the modulation scheme is 2^(m)-QAM and thecode rate of the LDPC code is r, similarly to FIGS. 90 to 93.

The signal points of the 1D NUC are arranged in a straight line parallelto the I axis or a straight line parallel to the Q axis in a latticeshape. An interval between the signal points is not uniform. When (datamapped to) the signal points is transmitted, an average power of thesignal point on the constellation is normalized. When it is assumed thata root-mean-square value of an absolute value of (coordinates of) allsignal points on the constellation is represented as P_(ave), thenormalization is performed by multiplying the reciprocal 1/√P_(ave)) ofthe respective signal points z_(q) on the constellation by the squareroot √P_(ave) of the root-mean-square value P_(ave).

According to the constellations described in FIGS. 83 to 104, it can beseen that a favorable error rate is obtained.

Block Interleaver 25

FIG. 105 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the blockinterleaver 25 of FIG. 9.

The block interleaver 25 includes a storage region called a part 1, anda storage region called a part 2.

Both of the parts 1 and 2 are configured in such a manner that columnsas storage regions that store one bit in a row (transverse) directionand store a predetermined number of bits in a column (longitudinal)direction are arranged by a number C equal to m which is the number ofbits of a symbol in the row direction.

When it is assumed that the number of bits (hereinafter, referred to asa part column length) stored in the column direction by the columns ofthe part 1 is represented as R1 and the part column length of thecolumns of the part 2 is represented as R2, (R1+R2)×C is equal to thecode length N (64,800 bits or 16,200 bits in the first embodiment) ofthe LDPC code to be subject to the block interleaving.

The part column length R1 is equal to a multiple of 360 bits which isthe unit size P, and the part column length R2 is equal to the remainderwhen the sum (hereinafter, referred to as a column length) R1+R2 of thepart column length R1 of the part 1 and the part column length R2 of thepart 2 is divided by 360 bits which is the unit size P.

Here, the column length R1+R2 is equal to the value obtained by dividingthe code length N of the LDPC code to be subject to the blockinterleaving by the number of bits m of the symbol.

When 16-QAM is adopted as the modulation scheme, since the number ofbits m of the symbol is 4 bits, the column length R1+R2 of the LDPC codehaving a code length N of 16,200 bits is 4,050(=16,200/4) bits.

Furthermore, since the remainder when the column length R1+R2=4,050 isdivided by 360 bits which is the unit size P is 90, the part columnlength R2 of the part 2 is 90 bits.

The part column length R1 of the part 1 is R1+R2-R2=4,050−90=3,960 bits.

FIG. 106 is a diagram showing the number of columns C of the parts 1 and2 for combinations of the code lengths N and the modulation schemes andthe part column lengths (the number of rows) R1 and R2.

FIG. 106 shows the number of columns C of the parts 1 and 2 for thecombinations of the LDPC codes having the code lengths N of 16,200 bitsand 64,800 bits and the modulation schemes of QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM,256-QAM, 1024-QAM, and 4096-QAM and the part column lengths R1 and R2.

FIG. 107 is a diagram for describing the block interleaving performed inthe block interleaver 25 of FIG. 105.

The block interleaver 25 performs the block interleaving by writing andreading the LDPC code in and from the parts 1 and 2.

That is, in the block interleaving, as shown in FIG. 107A, the writingof the code bits of the LDPC code of the one codeword in the columns ofthe part 1 from the top to the bottom (in column direction) is performedin the columns from the left to the right.

When the writing of the code bits in the bottommost region of therightmost column (C-th column) of the columns of the part 1 is ended,the writing of the remaining code bits in the columns of the part 2 fromthe top to the bottom (in the column direction) is performed in thecolumns from the left to the right.

Subsequently, when the writing of the code bits in the bottommost regionof the rightmost column (C-th column) of the columns of the part 2 isended, the code bits are read from the first columns of all of C numberof columns of the part 1 in the row direction for every C=m bits asshown in FIG. 107B.

The reading of the code bits from all of C number of columns of the part1 is sequentially performed in the lower rows, and when the reading fromthe R1 row which is the last row is ended, the code bits are read fromthe first rows of all of C number of columns of the part 2 in the rowdirection for every C=m bits.

The reading of the code bits from all of C number of columns of the part2 is sequentially performed in the lower rows, and the reading isperformed up to the R2 row which is the last row.

As stated above, the code bits read for every m bits from the parts 1and 2 are supplied as the symbol to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8).

Group-wise Interleaving FIG. 108 is a diagram for describing thegroup-wise interleaving performed in the group-wise interleaver 24 ofFIG. 9.

In the group-wise interleaving, the LDPC code of one codeword isinterleaved for every bit group according to a predetermined pattern(hereinafter, referred to as a GW pattern) by using 360 bitscorresponding to one group obtained by dividing the LDPC code of onecodeword from the leading code for every 360 bits equal to the unit sizeP into the bit groups.

Hereinafter, a (i+1)-th bit group from a leading bit group when the LDPCcode of one codeword is divided into the bit groups is referred to as abit group i.

When the unit size P is 360 bits, the LDPC code having the code length Nof, for example, 1,800 bits is divided into 5 (=1,800/360) bit groups ofbit groups 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. For example, the LDPC code having the codelength N of 16,200 bits is divided into 45 (=16,200/360) bit groups ofbit groups 0, 1, and 44, and the LDPC code having the code length N of64,800 bits is divided into 180 (=64,800/360) bit groups of bit groups0, 1, . . . , and 179.

In the following description, it is assumed that the GW pattern isrepresented as the arrangement of numbers representing the bit groups.For example, the GW pattern of 4, 2, 0, 3, 1 for the LDPC code havingthe code length N of 1,800 bits represents that the arrangement of bitgroups 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 is interleaved (rearranged) into the arrangementof bit groups 4, 2, 0, 3 and 1.

The GW pattern can be set for at least the code length N of the LDPCcode.

Example of GW Pattern for LDPC code of 64 k Bits

FIG. 109 is a diagram showing a first example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having a code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 109, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into bit groups 39,47, 96, 176, 33, 75, 165, 38, 27, 58, 90, 76, 17, 46, 10, 91, 133, 69,171, 32, 117, 78, 13, 146, 101, 36, 0, 138, 25, 77, 122, 49, 14, 125,140, 93, 130, 2, 104, 102, 128, 4, 111, 151, 84, 167, 35, 127, 156, 55,82, 85, 66, 114, 8, 147, 115, 113, 5, 31, 100, 106, 48, 52, 67, 107, 18,126, 112, 50, 9, 143, 28, 160, 71, 79, 43, 98, 86, 94, 64, 3, 166, 105,103, 118, 63, 51, 139, 172, 141, 175, 56, 74, 95, 29, 45, 129, 120, 168,92, 150, 7, 162, 153, 137, 108, 159, 157, 173, 23, 89, 132, 57, 37, 70,134, 40, 21, 149, 80, 1, 121, 59, 110, 142, 152, 15, 154, 145, 12, 170,54, 155, 99, 22, 123, 72, 177, 131, 116, 44, 158, 73, 11, 65, 164, 119,174, 34, 83, 53, 24, 42, 60, 26, 161, 68, 178, 41, 148, 109, 87, 144,135, 20, 62, 81, 169, 124, 6, 19, 30, 163, 61, 179, 136, 97, 16, and 88.

FIG. 110 is a diagram showing a second example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 110, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 6, 14, 1, 127, 161, 177, 75, 123, 62, 103, 17, 18, 167,88, 27, 34, 8, 110, 7, 78, 94, 44, 45, 166, 149, 61, 163, 145, 155, 157,82, 130, 70, 92, 151, 139, 160, 133, 26, 2, 79, 15, 95, 122, 126, 178,101, 24, 138, 146, 179, 30, 86, 58, 11, 121, 159, 49, 84, 132, 117, 119,50, 52, 4, 51, 48, 74, 114, 59, 40, 131, 33, 89, 66, 136, 72, 16, 134,37, 164, 77, 99, 173, 20, 158, 156, 90, 41, 176, 81, 42, 60, 109, 22,150, 105, 120, 12, 64, 56, 68, 111, 21, 148, 53, 169, 97, 108, 35, 140,91, 115, 152, 36, 106, 154, 0, 25, 54, 63, 172, 80, 168, 142, 118, 162,135, 73, 83, 153, 141, 9, 28, 55, 31, 112, 107, 85, 100, 175, 23, 57,47, 38, 170, 137, 76, 147, 93, 19, 98, 124, 39, 87, 174, 144, 46, 10,129, 69, 71, 125, 96, 116, 171, 128, 65, 102, 5, 43, 143, 104, 13, 67,29, 3, 113, 32, and 165.

FIG. 111 is a diagram showing a third example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 111, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 103, 116, 158, 0, 27, 73, 140, 30, 148, 36, 153, 154, 10,174, 122, 178, 6, 106, 162, 59, 142, 112, 7, 74, 11, 51, 49, 72, 31, 65,156, 95, 171, 105, 173, 168, 1, 155, 125, 82, 86, 161, 57, 165, 54, 26,121, 25, 157, 93, 22, 34, 33, 39, 19, 46, 150, 141, 12, 9, 79, 118, 24,17, 85, 117, 67, 58, 129, 160, 89, 61, 146, 77, 130, 102, 101, 137, 94,69, 14, 133, 60, 149, 136, 16, 108, 41, 90, 28, 144, 13, 175, 114, 2,18, 63, 68, 21, 109, 53, 123, 75, 81, 143, 169, 42, 119, 138, 104, 4,131, 145, 8, 5, 76, 15, 88, 177, 124, 45, 97, 64, 100, 37, 132, 38, 44,107, 35, 43, 80, 50, 91, 152, 78, 166, 55, 115, 170, 159, 147, 167, 87,83, 29, 96, 172, 48, 98, 62, 139, 70, 164, 84, 47, 151, 134, 126, 113,179, 110, 111, 128, 32, 52, 66, 40, 135, 176, 99, 127, 163, 3, 120, 71,56, 92, 23 and 20.

FIG. 112 is a diagram showing a fourth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 112, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 139, 106, 125, 81, 88, 104, 3, 66, 60, 65, 2, 95, 155, 24,151, 5, 51, 53, 29, 75, 52, 85, 8, 22, 98, 93, 168, 15, 86, 126, 173,100, 130, 176, 20, 10, 87, 92, 175, 36, 143, 110, 67, 146, 149, 127,133, 42, 84, 64, 78, 1, 48, 159, 79, 138, 46, 112, 164, 31, 152, 57,144, 69, 27, 136, 122, 170, 132, 171, 129, 115, 107, 134, 89, 157, 113,119, 135, 45, 148, 83, 114, 71, 128, 161, 140, 26, 13, 59, 38, 35, 96,28, 0, 80, 174, 137, 49, 16, 101, 74, 179, 91, 44, 55, 169, 131, 163,123, 145, 162, 108, 178, 12, 77, 167, 21, 154, 82, 54, 90, 177, 17, 41,39, 7, 102, 156, 62, 109, 14, 37, 23, 153, 6, 147, 50, 47, 63, 18, 70,68, 124, 72, 33, 158, 32, 118, 99, 105, 94, 25, 121, 166, 120, 160, 141,165, 111, 19, 150, 97, 76, 73, 142, 117, 4, 172, 58, 11, 30, 9, 103, 40,61, 43, 34, 56, and 116.

FIG. 113 is a diagram showing a fifth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 113, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 72, 59, 65, 61, 80, 2, 66, 23, 69, 101, 19, 16, 53, 109,74, 106, 113, 56, 97, 30, 164, 15, 25, 20, 117, 76, 50, 82, 178, 13,169, 36, 107, 40, 122, 138, 42, 96, 27, 163, 46, 64, 124, 57, 87, 120,168, 166, 39, 177, 22, 67, 134, 9, 102, 28, 148, 91, 83, 88, 167, 32,99, 140, 60, 152, 1, 123, 29, 154, 26, 70, 149, 171, 12, 6, 55, 100, 62,86, 114, 174, 132, 139, 7, 45, 103, 130, 31, 49, 151, 119, 79, 41, 118,126, 3, 179, 110, 111, 51, 93, 145, 73, 133, 54, 104, 161, 37, 129, 63,38, 95, 159, 89, 112, 115, 136, 33, 68, 17, 35, 137, 173, 143, 78, 77,141, 150, 58, 158, 125, 156, 24, 105, 98, 43, 84, 92, 128, 165, 153,108, 0, 121, 170, 131, 144, 47, 157, 11, 155, 176, 48, 135, 4, 116, 146,127, 52, 162, 142, 8, 5, 34, 85, 90, 44, 172, 94, 160, 175, 75, 71, 18,147, 10, 21, 14, and 81.

FIG. 114 is a diagram showing a sixth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 114, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 8, 27, 7, 70, 75, 84, 50, 131, 146, 99, 96, 141, 155, 157,82, 57, 120, 38, 137, 13, 83, 23, 40, 9, 56, 171, 124, 172, 39, 142, 20,128, 133, 2, 89, 153, 103, 112, 129, 151, 162, 106, 14, 62, 107, 110,73, 71, 177, 154, 80, 176, 24, 91, 32, 173, 25, 16, 17, 159, 21, 92, 6,67, 81, 37, 15, 136, 100, 64, 102, 163, 168, 18, 78, 76, 45, 140, 123,118, 58, 122, 11, 19, 86, 98, 119, 111, 26, 138, 125, 74, 97, 63, 10,152, 161, 175, 87, 52, 60, 22, 79, 104, 30, 158, 54, 145, 49, 34, 166,109, 179, 174, 93, 41, 116, 48, 3, 29, 134, 167, 105, 132, 114, 169,147, 144, 77, 61, 170, 90, 178, 0, 43, 149, 130, 117, 47, 44, 36, 115,88, 101, 148, 69, 46, 94, 143, 164, 139, 126, 160, 156, 33, 113, 65,121, 53, 42, 66, 165, 85, 127, 135, 5, 55, 150, 72, 35, 31, 51, 4, 1,68, 12, 28, 95, 59, and 108.

FIG. 115 is a diagram showing a seventh example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 115, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30,32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66,68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100,102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128,130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156,158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9,11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45,47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81,83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113,115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141,143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169,171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

FIG. 116 is a diagram showing an eighth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 116, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 11, 5, 8, 18, 1, 25, 32, 31, 19, 21, 50, 102, 65, 85, 45,86, 98, 104, 64, 78, 72, 53, 103, 79, 93, 41, 82, 108, 112, 116, 120,124, 128, 132, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 160, 164, 168, 172, 176, 4,12, 15, 3, 10, 20, 26, 34, 23, 33, 68, 63, 69, 92, 44, 90, 75, 56, 100,47, 106, 42, 39, 97, 99, 89, 52, 109, 113, 117, 121, 125, 129, 133, 137,141, 145, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 6, 16, 14, 7, 13, 36,28, 29, 37, 73, 70, 54, 76, 91, 66, 80, 88, 51, 96, 81, 95, 38, 57, 105,107, 59, 61, 110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130, 134, 138, 142, 146, 150, 154,158, 162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 0, 9, 17, 2, 27, 30, 24, 22, 35, 77, 74,46, 94, 62, 87, 83, 101, 49, 43, 84, 48, 60, 67, 71, 58, 40, 55, 111,115, 119, 123, 127, 131, 135, 139, 143, 147, 151, 155, 159, 163, 167,171, 175, and 179.

FIG. 117 is a diagram showing a ninth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 117, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 9, 18, 15, 13, 35, 26, 28, 99, 40, 68, 85, 58, 63, 104,50, 52, 94, 69, 108, 114, 120, 126, 132, 138, 144, 150, 156, 162, 168,174, 8, 16, 17, 24, 37, 23, 22, 103, 64, 43, 47, 56, 92, 59, 70, 42,106, 60, 109, 115, 121, 127, 133, 139, 145, 151, 157, 163, 169, 175, 4,1, 10, 19, 30, 31, 89, 86, 77, 81, 51, 79, 83, 48, 45, 62, 67, 65, 110,116, 122, 128, 134, 140, 146, 152, 158, 164, 170, 176, 6, 2, 0, 25, 20,34, 98, 105, 82, 96, 90, 107, 53, 74, 73, 93, 55, 102, 111, 117, 123,129, 135, 141, 147, 153, 159, 165, 171, 177, 14, 7, 3, 27, 21, 33, 44,97, 38, 75, 72, 41, 84, 80, 100, 87, 76, 57, 112, 118, 124, 130, 136,142, 148, 154, 160, 166, 172, 178, 5, 11, 12, 32, 29, 36, 88, 71, 78,95, 49, 54, 61, 66, 46, 39, 101, 91, 113, 119, 125, 131, 137, 143, 149,155, 161, 167, 173, and 179.

FIG. 118 is a diagram showing a tenth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 118, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 0, 14, 19, 21, 2, 11, 22, 9, 8, 7, 16, 3, 26, 24, 27, 80,100, 121, 107, 31, 36, 42, 46, 49, 75, 93, 127, 95, 119, 73, 61, 63,117, 89, 99, 129, 52, 111, 124, 48, 122, 82, 106, 91, 92, 71, 103, 102,81, 113, 101, 97, 33, 115, 59, 112, 90, 51, 126, 85, 123, 40, 83, 53,69, 70, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156,158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 4, 5, 10, 12, 20,6, 18, 13, 17, 15, 1, 29, 28, 23, 25, 67, 116, 66, 104, 44, 50, 47, 84,76, 65, 130, 56, 128, 77, 39, 94, 87, 120, 62, 88, 74, 35, 110, 131, 98,60, 37, 45, 78, 125, 41, 34, 118, 38, 72, 108, 58, 43, 109, 57, 105, 68,86, 79, 96, 32, 114, 64, 55, 30, 54, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145,147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173,175, 177, and 179.

FIG. 119 is a diagram showing an eleventh example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 119, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 21, 11, 12, 9, 0, 6, 24, 25, 85, 103, 118, 122, 71, 101,41, 93, 55, 73, 100, 40, 106, 119, 45, 80, 128, 68, 129, 61, 124, 36,126, 117, 114, 132, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 160, 164, 168, 172,176, 20, 18, 10, 13, 16, 8, 26, 27, 54, 111, 52, 44, 87, 113, 115, 58,116, 49, 77, 95, 86, 30, 78, 81, 56, 125, 53, 89, 94, 50, 123, 65, 83,133, 137, 141, 145, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 2, 17, 1, 4,7, 15, 29, 82, 32, 102, 76, 121, 92, 130, 127, 62, 107, 38, 46, 43, 110,75, 104, 70, 91, 69, 96, 120, 42, 34, 79, 35, 105, 134, 138, 142, 146,150, 154, 158, 162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 19, 5, 3, 14, 22, 28, 23, 109,51, 108, 131, 33, 84, 88, 64, 63, 59, 57, 97, 98, 48, 31, 99, 37, 72,39, 74, 66, 60, 67, 47, 112, 90, 135, 139, 143, 147, 151, 155, 159, 163,167, 171, 175, and 179.

FIG. 120 is a diagram showing a twelfth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 120, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 12, 15, 2, 16, 27, 50, 35, 74, 38, 70, 108, 32, 112, 54,30, 122, 72, 116, 36, 90, 49, 85, 132, 138, 144, 150, 156, 162, 168,174, 0, 14, 9, 5, 23, 66, 68, 52, 96, 117, 84, 128, 100, 63, 60, 127,81, 99, 53, 55, 103, 95, 133, 139, 145, 151, 157, 163, 169, 175, 10, 22,13, 11, 28, 104, 37, 57, 115, 46, 65, 129, 107, 75, 119, 110, 31, 43,97, 78, 125, 58, 134, 140, 146, 152, 158, 164, 170, 176, 4, 19, 6, 8,24, 44, 101, 94, 118, 130, 69, 71, 83, 34, 86, 124, 48, 106, 89, 40,102, 91, 135, 141, 147, 153, 159, 165, 171, 177, 3, 20, 7, 17, 25, 87,41, 120, 47, 80, 59, 62, 88, 45, 56, 131, 61, 126, 113, 92, 51, 98, 136,142, 148, 154, 160, 166, 172, 178, 21, 18, 1, 26, 29, 39, 73, 121, 105,77, 42, 114, 93, 82, 111, 109, 67, 79, 123, 64, 76, 33, 137, 143, 149,155, 161, 167, 173, and 179.

FIG. 121 is a diagram showing a thirteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 121, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30,32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66,68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100,102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128,130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156,158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9,11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45,47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81,83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113,115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141,143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169,171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

FIG. 122 is a diagram showing a fourteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 122, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56,60, 64, 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120,124, 128, 132, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 160, 164, 168, 172, 176, 1,5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 57, 61, 65, 69, 73,77, 81, 85, 89, 93, 97, 101, 105, 109, 113, 117, 121, 125, 129, 133,137, 141, 145, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18,22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 90,94, 98, 102, 106, 110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130, 134, 138, 142, 146, 150,154, 158, 162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35, 39,43, 47, 51, 55, 59, 63, 67, 71, 75, 79, 83, 87, 91, 95, 99, 103, 107,111, 115, 119, 123, 127, 131, 135, 139, 143, 147, 151, 155, 159, 163,167, 171, 175, and 179.

FIG. 123 is a diagram showing a fifteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 123, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 8, 112, 92, 165, 12, 55, 5, 126, 87, 70, 69, 94, 103, 78,137, 148, 9, 60, 13, 7, 178, 79, 43, 136, 34, 68, 118, 152, 49, 15, 99,61, 66, 28, 109, 125, 33, 167, 81, 93, 97, 26, 35, 30, 153, 131, 122,71, 107, 130, 76, 4, 95, 42, 58, 134, 0, 89, 75, 40, 129, 31, 80, 101,52, 16, 142, 44, 138, 46, 116, 27, 82, 88, 143, 128, 72, 29, 83, 117,172, 14, 51, 159, 48, 160, 100, 1, 102, 90, 22, 3, 114, 19, 108, 113,39, 73, 111, 155, 106, 105, 91, 150, 54, 25, 135, 139, 147, 36, 56, 123,6, 67, 104, 96, 157, 10, 62, 164, 86, 74, 133, 120, 174, 53, 140, 156,171, 149, 127, 85, 59, 124, 84, 11, 21, 132, 41, 145, 158, 32, 17, 23,50, 169, 170, 38, 18, 151, 24, 166, 175, 2, 47, 57, 98, 20, 177, 161,154, 176, 163, 37, 110, 168, 141, 64, 65, 173, 162, 121, 45, 77, 115,179, 63, 119, 146, and 144.

FIG. 124 is a diagram showing a sixteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 124, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 103, 138, 168, 82, 116, 45, 178, 28, 160, 2, 129, 148,150, 23, 54, 106, 24, 78, 49, 87, 145, 179, 26, 112, 119, 12, 18, 174,21, 48, 134, 137, 102, 147, 152, 72, 68, 3, 22, 169, 30, 64, 108, 142,131, 13, 113, 115, 121, 37, 133, 136, 101, 59, 73, 161, 38, 164, 43,167, 42, 144, 41, 85, 91, 58, 128, 154, 172, 57, 75, 17, 157, 19, 4, 86,15, 25, 35, 9, 105, 123, 14, 34, 56, 111, 60, 90, 74, 149, 146, 62, 163,31, 16, 141, 88, 6, 155, 130, 89, 107, 135, 79, 8, 10, 124, 171, 114,162, 33, 66, 126, 71, 44, 158, 51, 84, 165, 173, 120, 7, 11, 170, 176,1, 156, 96, 175, 153, 36, 47, 110, 63, 132, 29, 95, 143, 98, 70, 20,122, 53, 100, 93, 140, 109, 139, 76, 151, 52, 61, 46, 125, 94, 50, 67,81, 69, 65, 40, 127, 77, 32, 39, 27, 99, 97, 159, 166, 80, 117, 55, 92,118, 0, 5, 83, 177, and 104.

FIG. 125 is a diagram showing a seventeenth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 125, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 104, 120, 47, 136, 116, 109, 22, 20, 117, 61, 52, 108, 86,99, 76, 90, 37, 58, 36, 138, 95, 130, 177, 93, 56, 33, 24, 82, 0, 67,83, 46, 79, 70, 154, 18, 75, 43, 49, 63, 162, 16, 167, 80, 125, 1, 123,107, 9, 45, 53, 15, 38, 23, 57, 141, 4, 178, 165, 113, 21, 105, 11, 124,126, 77, 146, 29, 131, 27, 176, 40, 74, 91, 140, 64, 73, 44, 129, 157,172, 51, 10, 128, 119, 163, 103, 28, 85, 156, 78, 6, 8, 173, 160, 106,31, 54, 122, 25, 139, 68, 150, 164, 87, 135, 97, 166, 42, 169, 161, 137,26, 39, 133, 5, 94, 69, 2, 30, 171, 149, 115, 96, 145, 101, 92, 143, 12,88, 81, 71, 19, 147, 50, 152, 159, 155, 151, 174, 60, 32, 3, 142, 72,14, 170, 112, 65, 89, 175, 158, 17, 114, 62, 144, 13, 98, 66, 59, 7,118, 48, 153, 100, 134, 84, 111, 132, 127, 41, 168, 110, 102, 34, 121,179, 148, 55, and 35.

FIG. 126 is a diagram showing an eighteenth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 126, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 37, 98, 160, 63, 18, 6, 94, 136, 8, 50, 0, 75, 65, 32,107, 60, 108, 17, 21, 156, 157, 5, 73, 66, 38, 177, 162, 130, 171, 76,57, 126, 103, 62, 120, 134, 154, 101, 143, 29, 13, 149, 16, 33, 55, 56,159, 128, 23, 146, 153, 141, 169, 49, 46, 152, 89, 155, 111, 127, 48,14, 93, 41, 7, 78, 135, 69, 123, 179, 36, 87, 27, 58, 88, 170, 125, 110,15, 97, 178, 90, 121, 173, 30, 102, 10, 80, 104, 166, 64, 4, 147, 1, 52,45, 148, 68, 158, 31, 140, 100, 85, 115, 151, 70, 39, 82, 122, 79, 12,91, 133, 132, 22, 163, 47, 19, 119, 144, 35, 25, 42, 83, 92, 26, 72,138, 54, 124, 24, 74, 118, 117, 168, 71, 109, 112, 106, 176, 175, 44,145, 11, 9, 161, 96, 77, 174, 137, 34, 84, 2, 164, 129, 43, 150, 61, 53,20, 165, 113, 142, 116, 95, 3, 28, 40, 81, 99, 139, 114, 59, 67, 172,131, 105, 167, 51, and 86.

FIG. 127 is a diagram showing a nineteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 127, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 58, 70, 23, 32, 26, 63, 55, 48, 35, 41, 53, 20, 38, 51,61, 65, 44, 29, 7, 2, 113, 68, 96, 104, 106, 89, 27, 0, 119, 21, 4, 49,46, 100, 13, 36, 57, 98, 102, 9, 42, 39, 33, 62, 22, 95, 101, 15, 91,25, 93, 132, 69, 87, 47, 59, 67, 124, 17, 11, 31, 43, 40, 37, 85, 50,97, 140, 45, 92, 56, 30, 34, 60, 107, 24, 52, 94, 64, 5, 71, 90, 66,103, 88, 86, 84, 19, 169, 159, 147, 126, 28, 130, 14, 162, 144, 166,108, 153, 115, 135, 120, 122, 112, 139, 151, 156, 16, 172, 164, 123, 99,54, 136, 81, 105, 128, 116, 150, 155, 76, 18, 142, 170, 175, 83, 146,78, 109, 73, 131, 127, 82, 167, 77, 110, 79, 137, 152, 3, 173, 148, 72,158, 117, 1, 6, 12, 8, 161, 74, 143, 133, 168, 171, 134, 163, 138, 121,141, 160, 111, 10, 149, 80, 75, 165, 157, 174, 129, 145, 114, 125, 154,118, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 128 is a diagram showing a twentieth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 128, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 40, 159, 100, 14, 88, 75, 53, 24, 157, 84, 23, 77, 140,145, 32, 28, 112, 39, 76, 50, 93, 27, 107, 25, 152, 101, 127, 5, 129,71, 9, 21, 96, 73, 35, 106, 158, 49, 136, 30, 137, 115, 139, 48, 167,85, 74, 72, 7, 110, 161, 41, 170, 147, 82, 128, 149, 33, 8, 120, 47, 68,58, 67, 87, 155, 11, 18, 103, 151, 29, 36, 83, 135, 79, 150, 97, 54, 70,138, 156, 31, 121, 34, 20, 130, 61, 57, 2, 166, 117, 15, 6, 165, 118,98, 116, 131, 109, 62, 126, 175, 22, 111, 164, 16, 133, 102, 55, 105,64, 177, 78, 37, 162, 124, 119, 19, 4, 69, 132, 65, 123, 160, 17, 52,38, 1, 80, 90, 42, 81, 104, 13, 144, 51, 114, 3, 43, 146, 163, 59, 45,89, 122, 169, 44, 94, 86, 99, 66, 171, 173, 0, 141, 148, 176, 26, 143,178, 60, 153, 142, 91, 179, 12, 168, 113, 95, 174, 56, 134, 92, 46, 108,125, 10, 172, 154, and 63.

FIG. 129 is a diagram showing a twenty-first example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 129, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 143, 57, 67, 26, 134, 112, 136, 103, 13, 94, 16, 116, 169,95, 98, 6, 174, 173, 102, 15, 114, 39, 127, 78, 18, 123, 121, 4, 89,115, 24, 108, 74, 63, 175, 82, 48, 20, 104, 92, 27, 3, 33, 106, 62, 148,154, 25, 129, 69, 178, 156, 87, 83, 100, 122, 70, 93, 50, 140, 43, 125,166, 41, 128, 85, 157, 49, 86, 66, 79, 130, 133, 171, 21, 165, 126, 51,153, 38, 142, 109, 10, 65, 23, 91, 90, 73, 61, 42, 47, 131, 77, 9, 58,96, 101, 37, 7, 159, 44, 2, 170, 160, 162, 0, 137, 31, 45, 110, 144, 88,8, 11, 40, 81, 168, 135, 56, 151, 107, 105, 32, 120, 132, 1, 84, 161,179, 72, 176, 71, 145, 139, 75, 141, 97, 17, 149, 124, 80, 60, 36, 52,164, 53, 158, 113, 34, 76, 5, 111, 155, 138, 19, 35, 167, 172, 14, 147,55, 152, 59, 64, 54, 117, 146, 118, 119, 150, 29, 163, 68, 99, 46, 177,28, 22, 30, and 12.

FIG. 130 is a diagram showing a twenty-second example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 130, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 116, 47, 155, 89, 109, 137, 103, 60, 114, 14, 148, 100,28, 132, 129, 105, 154, 7, 167, 140, 160, 30, 57, 32, 81, 3, 86, 45, 69,147, 125, 52, 20, 22, 156, 168, 17, 5, 93, 53, 61, 149, 56, 62, 112, 48,11, 21, 166, 73, 158, 104, 79, 128, 135, 126, 63, 26, 44, 97, 13, 151,123, 41, 118, 35, 131, 8, 90, 58, 134, 6, 78, 130, 82, 106, 99, 178,102, 29, 108, 120, 107, 139, 23, 85, 36, 172, 174, 138, 95, 145, 170,122, 50, 19, 91, 67, 101, 92, 179, 27, 94, 66, 171, 39, 68, 9, 59, 146,15, 31, 38, 49, 37, 64, 77, 152, 144, 72, 165, 163, 24, 1, 2, 111, 80,124, 43, 136, 127, 153, 75, 42, 113, 18, 164, 133, 142, 98, 96, 4, 51,150, 46, 121, 76, 10, 25, 176, 34, 110, 115, 143, 173, 169, 40, 65, 157,175, 70, 33, 141, 71, 119, 16, 162, 177, 12, 84, 87, 117, 0, 88, 161,55, 54, 83, 74, and 159.

FIG. 131 is a diagram showing a twenty-third example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 131, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 62, 17, 10, 25, 174, 13, 159, 14, 108, 0, 42, 57, 78, 67,41, 132, 110, 87, 77, 27, 88, 56, 8, 161, 7, 164, 171, 44, 75, 176, 145,165, 157, 34, 142, 98, 103, 52, 11, 82, 141, 116, 15, 158, 139, 120, 36,61, 20, 112, 144, 53, 128, 24, 96, 122, 114, 104, 150, 50, 51, 80, 109,33, 5, 95, 59, 16, 134, 105, 111, 21, 40, 146, 18, 133, 60, 23, 160,106, 32, 79, 55, 6, 1, 154, 117, 19, 152, 167, 166, 30, 35, 100, 74,131, 99, 156, 39, 76, 86, 43, 178, 155, 179, 177, 136, 175, 81, 64, 124,153, 84, 163, 135, 115, 125, 47, 45, 143, 72, 48, 172, 97, 85, 107, 126,91, 129, 137, 83, 118, 54, 2, 9, 58, 169, 73, 123, 4, 92, 168, 162, 94,138, 119, 22, 31, 63, 89, 90, 69, 49, 173, 28, 127, 26, 29, 101, 170,93, 140, 147, 149, 148, 66, 65, 121, 12, 71, 37, 70, 102, 46, 38, 68,130, 3, 113, and 151.

FIG. 132 is a diagram showing a twenty-fourth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 132, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 168, 18, 46, 131, 88, 90, 11, 89, 111, 174, 172, 38, 78,153, 9, 80, 53, 27, 44, 79, 35, 83, 171, 51, 37, 99, 95, 119, 117, 127,112, 166, 28, 123, 33, 160, 29, 6, 135, 10, 66, 69, 74, 92, 15, 109,106, 178, 65, 141, 0, 3, 154, 156, 164, 7, 45, 115, 122, 148, 110, 24,121, 126, 23, 175, 21, 113, 58, 43, 26, 143, 56, 142, 39, 147, 30, 25,101, 145, 136, 19, 4, 48, 158, 118, 133, 49, 20, 102, 14, 151, 5, 2, 72,103, 75, 60, 84, 34, 157, 169, 31, 161, 81, 70, 85, 159, 132, 41, 152,179, 98, 144, 36, 16, 87, 40, 91, 1, 130, 108, 139, 94, 97, 8, 104, 13,150, 137, 47, 73, 62, 12, 50, 61, 105, 100, 86, 146, 165, 22, 17, 57,167, 59, 96, 120, 155, 77, 162, 55, 68, 140, 134, 82, 76, 125, 32, 176,138, 173, 177, 163, 107, 170, 71, 129, 63, 93, 42, 52, 116, 149, 54,128, 124, 114, 67, and 64.

FIG. 133 is a diagram showing a twenty-fifth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 133, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 18, 150, 165, 42, 81, 48, 63, 45, 93, 152, 25, 16, 174,29, 47, 83, 8, 60, 30, 66, 11, 113, 44, 148, 4, 155, 59, 33, 134, 99,32, 176, 109, 72, 36, 111, 106, 73, 170, 126, 64, 88, 20, 17, 172, 154,120, 121, 139, 77, 98, 43, 105, 133, 19, 41, 78, 15, 7, 145, 94, 136,131, 163, 65, 31, 96, 79, 119, 143, 10, 95, 9, 146, 14, 118, 162, 37,97, 49, 22, 51, 127, 6, 71, 132, 87, 21, 39, 38, 54, 115, 159, 161, 84,108, 13, 102, 135, 103, 156, 67, 173, 76, 75, 164, 52, 142, 69, 130, 56,153, 74, 166, 158, 124, 141, 58, 116, 85, 175, 169, 168, 147, 35, 62, 5,123, 100, 90, 122, 101, 149, 112, 140, 86, 68, 89, 125, 27, 177, 160, 0,80, 55, 151, 53, 2, 70, 167, 114, 129, 179, 138, 1, 92, 26, 50, 28, 110,61, 82, 91, 117, 107, 178, 34, 157, 137, 128, 40, 24, 57, 3, 171, 46,104, 12, 144, and 23.

FIG. 134 is a diagram showing a twenty-sixth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 134, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 18, 8, 166, 117, 4, 111, 142, 148, 176, 91, 120, 144, 99,124, 20, 25, 31, 78, 36, 72, 2, 98, 93, 74, 174, 52, 152, 62, 88, 75,23, 97, 147, 15, 71, 1, 127, 138, 81, 83, 68, 94, 112, 119, 121, 89,163, 85, 86, 28, 17, 64, 14, 44, 158, 159, 150, 32, 128, 70, 90, 29, 30,63, 100, 65, 129, 140, 177, 46, 84, 92, 10, 33, 58, 7, 96, 151, 171, 40,76, 6, 3, 37, 104, 57, 135, 103, 141, 107, 116, 160, 41, 153, 175, 55,130, 118, 131, 42, 27, 133, 95, 179, 34, 21, 87, 106, 105, 108, 79, 134,113, 26, 164, 114, 73, 102, 77, 22, 110, 161, 43, 122, 123, 82, 5, 48,139, 60, 49, 154, 115, 146, 67, 69, 137, 109, 143, 24, 101, 45, 16, 12,19, 178, 80, 51, 47, 149, 50, 172, 170, 169, 61, 9, 39, 136, 59, 38, 54,156, 126, 125, 145, 0, 13, 155, 132, 162, 11, 157, 66, 165, 173, 56,168, 167, 53, and 35.

FIG. 135 is a diagram showing a twenty-seventh example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 135, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 77, 50, 109, 128, 153, 12, 48, 17, 147, 55, 173, 172, 135,121, 99, 162, 52, 40, 129, 168, 103, 87, 134, 105, 179, 10, 131, 151, 3,26, 100, 15, 123, 88, 18, 91, 54, 160, 49, 1, 76, 80, 74, 31, 47, 58,161, 9, 16, 34, 41, 21, 177, 11, 63, 6, 39, 165, 169, 125, 114, 57, 37,67, 93, 96, 73, 106, 83, 166, 24, 51, 142, 65, 43, 64, 53, 72, 156, 81,4, 155, 33, 163, 56, 150, 70, 167, 107, 112, 144, 149, 36, 32, 35, 59,101, 29, 127, 138, 176, 90, 141, 92, 170, 102, 119, 25, 75, 14, 0, 68,20, 97, 110, 28, 89, 118, 154, 126, 2, 22, 124, 85, 175, 78, 46, 152,23, 86, 27, 79, 130, 66, 45, 113, 111, 62, 61, 7, 30, 133, 108, 171,143, 60, 178, 5, 122, 44, 38, 148, 157, 84, 42, 139, 145, 8, 104, 115,71, 137, 132, 146, 164, 98, 13, 117, 174, 158, 95, 116, 140, 94, 136,120, 82, 69, 159, and 19.

FIG. 136 is a diagram showing a twenty-eighth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 136, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 51, 47, 53, 43, 55, 59, 49, 33, 35, 31, 24, 37, 0, 2, 45,41, 39, 57, 42, 44, 52, 40, 23, 30, 32, 34, 54, 56, 46, 50, 122, 48, 1,36, 38, 58, 77, 3, 65, 81, 67, 147, 83, 69, 26, 75, 85, 73, 79, 145, 71,63, 5, 61, 70, 78, 68, 62, 66, 6, 64, 149, 60, 82, 80, 4, 76, 84, 72,154, 86, 74, 89, 128, 137, 91, 141, 93, 101, 7, 87, 9, 103, 99, 95, 11,13, 143, 97, 133, 136, 12, 100, 94, 14, 88, 142, 96, 92, 8, 152, 10,139, 102, 104, 132, 90, 98, 114, 112, 146, 123, 110, 15, 125, 150, 120,153, 29, 106, 134, 27, 127, 108, 130, 116, 28, 107, 126, 25, 131, 124,129, 151, 121, 105, 111, 115, 135, 148, 109, 117, 158, 113, 170, 119,162, 178, 155, 176, 18, 20, 164, 157, 160, 22, 140, 16, 168, 166, 172,174, 175, 179, 118, 138, 156, 19, 169, 167, 163, 173, 161, 177, 165,144, 171, 17, 21, and 159.

FIG. 137 is a diagram showing a twenty-ninth example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 137, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 49, 2, 57, 47, 31, 35, 24, 39, 59, 0, 45, 41, 55, 53, 51,37, 33, 43, 56, 38, 48, 32, 50, 23, 34, 54, 1, 36, 44, 52, 40, 58, 122,46, 42, 30, 3, 75, 73, 65, 145, 71, 79, 67, 69, 83, 85, 147, 63, 81, 77,61, 5, 26, 62, 64, 74, 70, 82, 149, 76, 4, 78, 84, 80, 86, 66, 68, 72,6, 60, 154, 103, 95, 101, 143, 9, 89, 141, 128, 97, 137, 133, 7, 13, 99,91, 93, 87, 11, 136, 90, 88, 94, 10, 8, 14, 96, 104, 92, 132, 142, 100,98, 12, 102, 152, 139, 150, 106, 146, 130, 27, 108, 153, 112, 114, 29,110, 134, 116, 15, 127, 125, 123, 120, 148, 151, 113, 126, 124, 135,129, 109, 25, 28, 158, 117, 105, 115, 111, 131, 107, 121, 18, 170, 164,20, 140, 160, 166, 162, 119, 155, 168, 178, 22, 174, 172, 176, 16, 157,159, 171, 161, 118, 17, 163, 21, 165, 19, 179, 177, 167, 138, 173, 156,144, 169, and 175.

FIG. 138 is a diagram showing a thirtieth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 138, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 71, 38, 98, 159, 1, 32, 28, 177, 125, 102, 83, 17, 121,151, 66, 92, 140, 6, 165, 23, 75, 91, 87, 108, 163, 50, 77, 39, 110,128, 73, 148, 14, 5, 68, 37, 53, 93, 149, 26, 166, 48, 79, 10, 122, 150,103, 178, 119, 101, 61, 34, 8, 86, 36, 138, 146, 72, 179, 143, 147, 89,4, 107, 33, 144, 141, 40, 100, 29, 118, 63, 46, 20, 153, 90, 152, 124,7, 30, 31, 43, 78, 120, 85, 25, 52, 47, 64, 81, 175, 94, 115, 15, 112,99, 13, 21, 42, 169, 76, 19, 168, 16, 27, 162, 167, 164, 97, 82, 44,106, 12, 109, 132, 145, 161, 174, 95, 0, 105, 134, 173, 84, 9, 65, 88,54, 67, 116, 154, 80, 22, 172, 60, 111, 133, 56, 170, 104, 131, 123, 24,49, 113, 136, 55, 3, 157, 156, 35, 58, 45, 155, 70, 59, 57, 171, 176,74, 117, 18, 127, 114, 11, 69, 158, 129, 139, 62, 135, 96, 142, 41, 130,160, 2, 126, 51, and 137.

FIG. 139 is a diagram showing a thirty-first example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 139, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 66, 61, 150, 157, 63, 42, 78, 44, 23, 154, 133, 101, 82,26, 84, 123, 89, 31, 45, 102, 36, 134, 83, 117, 170, 27, 73, 137, 25,32, 62, 91, 4, 20, 144, 145, 21, 74, 113, 148, 24, 135, 5, 19, 2, 34,43, 168, 14, 64, 142, 115, 87, 38, 147, 39, 51, 152, 56, 86, 122, 76,57, 129, 172, 6, 126, 10, 97, 85, 164, 3, 80, 90, 79, 124, 138, 120, 17,103, 99, 116, 46, 98, 162, 151, 143, 11, 175, 160, 96, 132, 81, 171, 94,65, 118, 161, 125, 178, 95, 112, 88, 174, 13, 35, 1, 167, 0, 128, 12,58, 29, 169, 67, 28, 119, 166, 60, 55, 54, 130, 92, 146, 177, 149, 111,9, 173, 179, 176, 75, 77, 114, 48, 159, 8, 141, 107, 139, 52, 100, 136,105, 127, 47, 18, 69, 109, 16, 121, 59, 163, 165, 108, 106, 70, 22, 93,41, 33, 110, 53, 140, 153, 158, 50, 15, 37, 72, 156, 7, 131, 49, 71, 68,104, 30, 40, and 155.

FIG. 140 is a diagram showing a thirty-second example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 140, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 75, 83, 11, 24, 86, 104, 156, 76, 37, 173, 127, 61, 43,139, 106, 69, 49, 2, 128, 140, 68, 14, 100, 8, 36, 73, 148, 65, 16, 47,177, 6, 132, 45, 5, 30, 13, 22, 29, 27, 101, 150, 23, 90, 41, 93, 89,92, 135, 4, 71, 87, 44, 124, 26, 64, 1, 129, 157, 130, 107, 18, 91, 118,3, 82, 144, 113, 121, 54, 84, 97, 122, 120, 7, 154, 56, 134, 57, 161,33, 116, 28, 96, 72, 172, 12, 115, 38, 164, 32, 167, 145, 17, 88, 39,151, 80, 0, 136, 169, 142, 74, 147, 126, 166, 163, 40, 110, 171, 50,160, 131, 70, 175, 103, 125, 77, 162, 31, 85, 66, 67, 52, 108, 159, 133,42, 153, 21, 51, 119, 123, 98, 35, 48, 111, 149, 25, 58, 60, 158, 102,59, 117, 20, 141, 143, 46, 53, 155, 15, 165, 152, 112, 176, 105, 178,99, 174, 168, 114, 179, 78, 10, 19, 62, 63, 170, 138, 34, 109, 9, 146,95, 94, 55, 137, 81, and 79.

FIG. 141 is a diagram showing a thirty-third example of the GW patternfor the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 141, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 98, 159, 59, 125, 163, 89, 26, 4, 102, 70, 92, 36, 37,142, 176, 95, 71, 19, 87, 45, 81, 47, 65, 170, 103, 48, 67, 61, 64, 35,76, 80, 140, 77, 10, 167, 178, 155, 120, 156, 151, 12, 58, 5, 83, 137,41, 109, 2, 66, 133, 62, 135, 28, 93, 128, 86, 57, 153, 161, 110, 52,147, 141, 31, 79, 32, 88, 160, 84, 150, 6, 100, 73, 126, 164, 17, 42,101, 7, 55, 105, 91, 22, 130, 154, 1, 82, 14, 0, 9, 21, 50, 165, 72,138, 175, 106, 108, 3, 169, 30, 157, 54, 18, 20, 44, 34, 134, 107, 56,53, 15, 162, 38, 166, 24, 33, 60, 85, 145, 115, 43, 39, 40, 124, 149,144, 132, 96, 11, 146, 90, 129, 119, 111, 171, 8, 152, 121, 173, 131,49, 27, 118, 16, 148, 68, 177, 94, 179, 13, 114, 75, 51, 117, 25, 46,136, 143, 139, 113, 127, 174, 74, 29, 122, 158, 69, 97, 78, 63, 99, 112,104, 116, 172, 168, 23, and 123.

It is possible to apply the first to thirty-third examples of the GWpattern for the LDPC code having the code length N of 64 k bitsdescribed above to any combination of LDPC codes having a code length Nof 64 k bits and an arbitrary code rate r and an arbitrary modulationscheme (constellation).

It is possible to further improve an error rate of each of thecombinations by setting the GW pattern to be applied for each of thecombinations of the code lengths N of the LDPC code and the code rates rof the LDPC code and the modulation schemes (constellations) in thegroup-wise interleaving.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 109 to specifically the combination of the ETRI code of(64 k, 5/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 110 to specifically the combination of the ETRI code of(64 k, 5/15) and 16-QAM of FIG. 90, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 111 to specifically the combination of the ETRI code of(64 k, 5/15) and 64-QAM of FIG. 91, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 112 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 7/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 113 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 7/15) and 16-QAM of FIG. 90, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 114 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 7/15) and 64-QAM of FIG. 91, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 115 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 9/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 116 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 9/15) and 16-QAM of FIG. 90, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 117 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 9/15) and 64-QAM of FIG. 91, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 118 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 11/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 119 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 11/15) and 16-QAM of FIG. 90, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 120 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 11/15) and 64-QAM of FIG. 91, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 121 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 13/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 122 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 13/15) and 16-QAM of FIG. 90, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 123 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 13/15) and 64-QAM of FIG. 91, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 124 to specifically the combination of the ETRI code of(64 k, 5/15) and 256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 125 to specifically the combination of the ETRI code of(64 k, 7/15) and 256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 126 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 7/15) and 256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 127 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 9/15) and 256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 128 to specifically the combination of the NERC code of(64 k, 9/15) and 256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 129 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 11/15) and 256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 130 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 13/15) and 256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 131 to specifically the combination of the ETRI code of(64 k, 5/15) and 1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 132 to specifically the combination of the ETRI code of(64 k, 7/15) and 1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 133 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 7/15) and 1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 134 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 9/15) and 1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 135 to specifically the combination of the NERC code of(64 k, 9/15) and 1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 136 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 11/15) and 1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 137 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 13/15) and 1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 138 to specifically the combination of the Samsung codeof (64 k, 6/15) and 4096-QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 139 to specifically the combination of the ETRI code of(64 k, 7/15) and 4096-QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 140 to specifically the combination of the Samsung codeof (64 k, 8/15) and 4096-QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 141 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(64 k, 9/15) and 4096-QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97, for example.

Example of GW Pattern for LDPC code of 16 k Bits FIG. 142 is a diagramshowing a first example of the GW pattern for the LDPC code having acode length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 142, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 21, 41, 15, 29, 0, 23, 16, 12, 38, 43, 2, 3, 4 20, 31, 27,5, 33, 28, 30, 36, 8, 40, 13, 6, 9, 18, 24, 7, 39, 10, 17, 37, 1, 19,22, 25, 26, 14, 32, 34, 11, 35, 42, and 44.

FIG. 143 is a diagram showing a second example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 143, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 1, 3, 2, 8, 5, 23, 13, 12, 18, 19, 17, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30,32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 0, 4, 6, 7, 21, 16, 10, 15, 9, 11, 22, 14, 25,27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

FIG. 144 is a diagram showing a third example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 144, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 1, 4, 5, 6, 24, 21, 18, 7, 17, 12, 8, 20, 23, 29, 28, 30,32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 0, 2, 3, 14, 22, 13, 10, 25, 9, 27, 19, 16, 15,26, 11, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

FIG. 145 is a diagram showing a fourth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 145, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 3, 0, 4, 7, 18, 9, 19, 27, 32, 10, 12, 24, 8, 35, 30, 17,22, 20, 36, 38, 40, 42, 2, 5, 1, 6, 14, 15, 23, 16, 11, 21, 26, 13, 29,33, 31, 28, 25, 34, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

FIG. 146 is a diagram showing a fifth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 146, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 37, 0, 41, 19, 43, 8, 38, 3, 29, 13, 22, 6, 4, 2, 9, 26,39, 15, 12, 10, 33, 17, 20, 16, 21, 44, 42, 27, 7, 11, 30, 34, 24, 1,23, 35, 36, 25, 31, 18, 28, 32, 40, 5, and 14.

FIG. 147 is a diagram showing a sixth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 147, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 6, 28, 17, 4, 3, 38, 13, 41, 44, 43, 7, 40, 19, 2, 23, 16,37, 15, 30, 20, 11, 8, 1, 27, 32, 34, 33, 39, 5, 9, 10, 18, 0, 31, 29,26, 14, 21, 42, 22, 12, 24, 35, 25, and 36.

FIG. 148 is a diagram showing a seventh example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 148, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 27, 11, 20, 1, 7, 5, 29, 35, 9, 10, 34, 18, 25, 28, 6, 13,17, 0, 23, 16, 41, 15, 19, 44, 24, 37, 4, 31, 8, 32, 14, 42, 12, 2, 40,30, 36, 39, 43, 21, 3, 22, 26, 33, and 38.

FIG. 149 is a diagram showing an eighth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 149, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 3, 6, 7, 27, 2, 23, 10, 30, 22, 28, 24, 20, 37, 21, 4, 14,11, 42, 16, 9, 15, 26, 33, 40, 5, 8, 44, 34, 18, 0, 32, 29, 19, 41, 38,17, 25, 43, 35, 36, 13, 39, 12, 1, and 31.

FIG. 150 is a diagram showing a ninth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 150, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 31, 38, 7, 9, 13, 21, 39, 12, 10, 1, 43, 15, 30, 0, 14, 3,42, 34, 40, 24, 28, 35, 8, 11, 23, 4, 20, 17, 41, 19, 5, 37, 22, 32, 18,2, 26, 44, 25, 33, 36, 27, 16, 6, and 29.

FIG. 151 is a diagram showing a tenth example of the GW pattern for theLDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 151, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 36, 6, 2, 20, 43, 17, 33, 22, 23, 25, 13, 0, 10, 7, 21, 1,19, 26, 8, 14, 31, 35, 16, 5, 29, 40, 11, 9, 4, 34, 15, 42, 32, 28, 18,37, 30, 39, 24, 41, 3, 38, 27, 12, and 44.

FIG. 152 is a diagram showing an eleventh example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 152, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 14, 22, 18, 11, 28, 26, 2, 38, 10, 0, 5, 12, 24, 17, 29,16, 39, 13, 23, 8, 25, 43, 34, 33, 27, 15, 7, 1, 9, 35, 40, 32, 30, 20,36, 31, 21, 41, 44, 3, 42, 6, 19, 37, and 4.

FIG. 153 is a diagram showing a twelfth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 153, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 17, 11, 14, 7, 31, 10, 2, 26, 0, 32, 29, 22, 33, 12, 20,28, 27, 39, 37, 15, 4, 5, 8, 13, 38, 18, 23, 34, 24, 6, 1, 9, 16, 44,21, 3, 36, 30, 40, 35, 43, 42, 25, 19, and 41.

FIG. 154 is a diagram showing a thirteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 154, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 1, 27, 17, 30, 11, 15, 9, 7, 5, 6, 32, 33, 2, 14, 3, 39,18, 12, 29, 13, 41, 31, 4, 43, 35, 34, 40, 10, 19, 44, 8, 26, 21, 16,28, 0, 23, 38, 25, 36, 22, 37, 42, 24, and 20.

FIG. 155 is a diagram showing a fourteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 155, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 41, 2, 12, 6, 33, 1, 13, 11, 26, 10, 39, 43, 36, 23, 42,7, 44, 20, 8, 38, 18, 22, 24, 40, 4, 28, 29, 19, 14, 5, 9, 0, 30, 25,35, 37, 27, 32, 31, 34, 21, 3, 15, 17, and 16.

FIG. 156 is a diagram showing a fifteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 156, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 17, 2, 30, 12, 7, 25, 27, 3, 15, 14, 4, 26, 34, 31, 13,22, 0, 39, 23, 24, 21, 6, 38, 5, 19, 42, 11, 32, 28, 40, 20, 18, 36, 9,41, 10, 33, 37, 1, 16, 8, 43, 29, 35, and 44.

FIG. 157 is a diagram showing a sixteenth example of the GW pattern forthe LDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 157, the arrangement of bit groups 0to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into the arrangementof bit groups 28, 21, 10, 15, 8, 22, 26, 2, 14, 1, 27, 3, 39, 20, 34,25, 12, 6, 7, 40, 30, 29, 38, 16, 43, 33, 4, 35, 9, 32, 5, 36, 0, 41,37, 18, 17, 13, 24, 42, 31, 23, 19, 11, and 44.

It is possible to apply the first to sixteenth examples of the GWpattern for the LDPC code having the code length N of 16 k bits to anycombination of LDPC codes having a code length N of 16 k bits and anarbitrary code rate r and an arbitrary modulation scheme(constellation).

As mentioned above, it is possible to further improve an error rate ofeach of the combinations by setting the GW pattern to be applied foreach of the combinations of the code lengths N of the LDPC code and thecode rates r of the LDPC code and the modulation schemes(constellations) in the group-wise interleaving.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 142 to specifically the combination of the LGE code of(16 k, 6/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 143 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 8/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 144 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 10/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 145 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 12/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 146 to specifically the combination of the LGE code of(16 k, 6/15) and 16-QAM of FIG. 101, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 147 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 8/15) and 16-QAM of FIG. 101, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 148 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 10/15) and 16-QAM of FIG. 101, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 149 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 12/15) and 16-QAM of FIG. 101, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 150 to specifically the combination of the LGE code of(16 k, 6/15) and 64-QAM of FIG. 102, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 151 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 8/15) and 64-QAM of FIG. 102, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 152 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 10/15) and 64-QAM of FIG. 102, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 153 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 12/15) and 64-QAM of FIG. 102, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 154 to specifically the combination of the LGE code of(16 k, 6/15) and 256-QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 155 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 8/15) and 256-QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 156 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 10/15) and 256-QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104, for example.

It is possible to achieve a favorable error rate by applying the GWpattern of FIG. 157 to specifically the combination of the Sony code of(16 k, 12/15) and 256-QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104, for example.

Simulation Result

FIG. 158 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 109is applied to the combination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 5/15) and QPSKof FIG. 89.

FIG. 159 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 110is applied to the combination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 5/15) and16-QAM of FIG. 90.

FIG. 160 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 111is applied to the combination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 5/15) and64-QAM of FIG. 91.

FIG. 161 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 112is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15) and QPSKof FIG. 89.

FIG. 162 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 113is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15) and16-QAM of FIG. 90.

FIG. 163 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 114is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15) and64-QAM of FIG. 91.

FIG. 164 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 115is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) and QPSKof FIG. 89.

FIG. 165 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 116is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) and16-QAM of FIG. 90.

FIG. 166 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 117is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) and64-QAM of FIG. 91.

FIG. 167 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 118is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) and QPSKof FIG. 89.

FIG. 168 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 119is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) and16-QAM of FIG. 90.

FIG. 169 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 120is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) and64-QAM of FIG. 91.

FIG. 170 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 121is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) and QPSKof FIG. 89.

FIG. 171 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 122is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) and16-QAM of FIG. 90.

FIG. 172 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 123is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) and64-QAM of FIG. 91.

FIG. 173 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 124is applied to the combination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 5/15) and256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 174 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 125is applied to the combination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 7/15) and256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 175 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 126is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15) and256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 176 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 127is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) and256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 177 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 128is applied to the combination of the NERC code of (64 k, 9/15) and256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 178 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 129is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) and256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 179 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 130is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) and256-QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 180 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 131is applied to the combination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 5/15) and1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 181 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 132is applied to the combination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 7/15) and1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 182 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 133is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 7/15) and1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 183 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 134is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) and1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 184 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 135is applied to the combination of the NERC code of (64 k, 9/15) and1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 185 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 136is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 11/15) and1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 186 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 137is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 13/15) and1024-QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 187 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 138is applied to the combination of the Samsung code of (64 k, 6/15) and4096-QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97.

FIG. 188 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 139is applied to the combination of the ETRI code of (64 k, 7/15) and4096-QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97.

FIG. 189 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 140is applied to the combination of the Samsung code of (64 k, 8/15) and4096-QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97.

FIG. 190 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 141is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (64 k, 9/15) and4096-QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97.

FIG. 191 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 142is applied to the combination of the LGE code of (16 k, 6/15) and QPSKof FIG. 89.

FIG. 192 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 143is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k, 8/15) and QPSKof FIG. 89.

FIG. 193 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 144is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k, 10/15) and QPSKof FIG. 89.

FIG. 194 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 145is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k, 12/15) and QPSKof FIG. 89.

FIG. 195 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 146is applied to the combination of the LGE code of (16 k, 6/15) and 16-QAMof FIG. 101.

FIG. 196 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 147is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k, 8/15) and16-QAM of FIG. 101.

FIG. 197 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 148is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k, 10/15) and16-QAM of FIG. 101.

FIG. 198 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 149is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k, 12/15) and16-QAM of FIG. 101.

FIG. 199 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 150is applied to the combination of the LGE code of (16 k, 6/15) and 64-QAMof FIG. 102.

FIG. 200 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 151is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k, 8/15) and64-QAM of FIG. 102.

FIG. 201 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 152is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k,10/15) and64-QAM of FIG. 102.

FIG. 202 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 153is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k, 12/15) and64-QAM of FIG. 102.

FIG. 203 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 154is applied to the combination of the LGE code of (16 k, 6/15) and256-QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104.

FIG. 204 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 155is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k, 8/15) and256-QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104.

FIG. 205 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 156is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k, 10/15) and256-QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104.

FIG. 206 is a diagram showing a BER/FER curve as a simulation result ofa simulation that measures an error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 157is applied to the combination of the Sony code of (16 k, 12/15) and256-QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104.

FIGS. 158 to 206 show BER/FER curves when an AWGN channel is used as thecommunication channel 13 (FIG. 7) (upper drawings) and when a Rayleigh(fading) channel is used as the communication channel (lower drawings).

In FIGS. 158 to 206, “wbil” represents BER/FER curves when the parityinterleaving, the group-wise interleaving and the block interleaving areperformed, and “w/obil” represents BER/FER curves when the parityinterleaving, the group-wise interleaving and the block interleaving arenot performed.

According to FIGS. 158 to 206, unlike in the case where the parityinterleaving, the group-wise interleaving and the block-wiseinterleaving are not performed, it can be seen that it is possible toimprove the BER/FER and it is possible to achieve the favorable errorrate in the case where the parity interleaving, the group-wiseinterleaving and the block interleaving are performed.

In addition to the QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, 1024-QAM, and 4096-QAMconstellations having the arrangements of signal points shown in FIGS.83 to 104 described above, it is possible to apply the GW patterns ofFIGS. 109 to 157 to a constellation in which the arrangements of signalpoints shown in FIGS. 83 to 104 are symmetrically moved with respect tothe I axis or the Q axis, a constellation in which the arrangements ofsignal points are symmetrically moved with respect to the origin, and aconstellation in which the arrangements of signal points are rotated atan arbitrary angle with the origin as its center, and it is possible toobtain the same effects when the arrangements of signal points shown inFIGS. 83 to 104 are applied to the QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM,1024-QAM, and 4096-QAM constellations.

In addition to the QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, 1024-QAM, and 4096-QAMconstellations having the arrangements of signal points shown in FIGS.83 to 104 described above, it is possible to apply the GW patterns ofFIGS. 109 to 157 to a constellation in which most significant bits(MSBs) and least significant bits (LSBs) of the symbols correspondingthe signal points are switched in the arrangements of signal pointsshown in FIGS. 83 to 104, and it is possible to obtain the same effectswhen the arrangements of signal points shown in FIGS. 83 to 104 areapplied to the QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, 1024-QAM, and 4096-QAMconstellations.

Configuration Example of Reception Apparatus 12

FIG. 207 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of thereception apparatus 12 of FIG. 7.

An OFDM operation unit 151 receives an OFDM signal from the transmissionapparatus 11 (FIG. 7), and performs signal processing on the OFDMsignal. Data obtained by performing the signal processing with the OFDMoperation unit 151 is supplied to a frame management unit 152.

The frame management unit 152 performs processing (frame analysis) on aframe constituted by data supplied from the OFDM operation unit 151, andrespectively supplies a signal of target data obtained as the result anda signal of control data to frequency deinterleavers 161 and 153.

The frequency deinterleaver 153 performs frequency deinterleaving on thedata from the frame management unit 152 for every symbol, and suppliesdata obtained as the result to a demapper 154.

The demapper 154 performs quadrature demodulation by demapping (signalpoint arrangement decoding) data (data on the constellation) from thefrequency deinterleaver 153 based on the arrangement (constellation) ofsignal points determined through the quadrature modulation performed bythe transmission apparatus 11, and supplies data ((likelihood of) LDPCcode) obtained as the result to an LDPC decoder 155.

The LDPC decoder 155 performs LDPC decoding on the LDPC code from thedemapper 154, and supplies LDPC target data (here, a BCH code) obtainedas the result to a BCH decoder 156.

The BCH decoder 156 performs BCH decoding on the LDPC target data fromthe LDPC decoder 155, and outputs control data (signaling) obtained asthe result.

Meanwhile, the frequency deinterleaver 161 performs frequencydeinterleaving on the data from the frame management unit 152 for everysymbol, and supplies data obtained as the result to a SISO/MISO decoder162.

The SISO/MISO decoder 162 performs space-time decoding on the data fromthe frequency deinterleaver 161, and supplies data obtained as theresult to a time deinterleaver 163.

The time deinterleaver 163 performs time deinterleaving on the data fromthe SISO/MISO decoder 162 for every symbol, and supplies data obtainedas the result to a demapper 164.

The demapper 164 performs quadrature demodulation by demapping (signalpoint arrangement decoding) the data (data on the constellation) fromthe time deinterleaver 163 based on the arrangement (constellation) ofsignal points determined through the quadrature modulation performed bythe transmission apparatus 11, and supplies data obtained as the resultto a bit deinterleaver 165.

The bit deinterleaver 165 performs bit deinterleaving on the data fromthe demapper 164, and supplies (likelihood of) an LDPC code which isdata on which the bit interleaving has been performed to an LDPC decoder166.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding on the LDPC code from thebit deinterleaver 165, and supplies LDPC target data (here, a BCH code)obtained as the result to a BCH decoder 167.

The BCH decoder 167 performs BCH decoding on the LDPC target data fromthe LDPC decoder 155, and supplies data obtained as the result to a BBdescrambler 168.

The BB descrambler 168 performs BB descrambling on the data from the BCHdecoder 167, and supplies data obtained as the result to a null deletionunit 169.

The null deletion unit 169 deletes the Nulls inserted by the padder 112of FIG. 8 from the data from the BB descrambler 168, and supplies dataobtained as the result to a demultiplexer 170.

The demultiplexer 170 splits one or more streams (target data)multiplexed to the data from the null deletion unit 169, performsnecessary processing on the split data items, and outputs the processeddata items as an output stream.

The reception apparatus 12 may be configured without including some ofthe blocks shown in FIG. 207. That is, for example, when thetransmission apparatus 11 (FIG. 8) is configured without including thetime interleaver 118, the SISO/MISO encoder 119, the frequencyinterleaver 120 and the frequency interleaver 124, the receptionapparatus 12 may be configured without including the time deinterleaver163, the SISO/MISO decoder 162, the frequency deinterleaver 161 and thefrequency deinterleaver 153 which are the blocks respectivelycorresponding to the time interleaver 118, the SISO/MISO encoder 119,the frequency interleaver 120 and the frequency interleaver 124 of thetransmission apparatus 11.

Configuration Example of Bit Deinterleaver 165

FIG. 208 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the bitdeinterleaver 165 of FIG. 207.

The bit deinterleaver 165 includes a block deinterleaver 54, and agroup-wise deinterleaver 55, and performs (bit) deinterleaving of symbolbits of a symbol which is the data from the demapper 164 (FIG. 207).

That is, the block deinterleaver 54 performs block deinterleaving(reverse processing of the block interleaving) corresponding to theblock interleaving performed by the block interleaver 25 of FIG. 9 onthe symbol bits of the symbol from the demapper 164 as a target, thatis, block deinterleaving that returns the positions of (likelihood of)the code bits of the LDPC code rearranged by the block interleaving tothe original positions, and supplies an LDPC code obtained as the resultto the group-wise deinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 performs group-wise deinterleaving(reverse processing of the group-wise interleaving) corresponding to thegroup-wise interleaving performed by the group-wise interleaver 24 ofFIG. 9 on the LDPC code from the block deinterleaver 54 as a target,that is, group-wise deinterleaving which returns the arrangement to theoriginal arrangement by rearranging the code bits of the LDPC code whosearrangement is changed for every bit group by, for example, thegroup-wise interleaving described in FIG. 108.

Here, when the parity interleaving, the group-wise interleaving and theblock interleaving are performed on the LDPC code supplied to the bitdeinterleaver 165 from the demapper 164, it is possible to perform allof parity deinterleaving (reverse processing of the parity interleaving,that is, parity deinterleaving that returns the arrangement of the codebits of the LDPC code whose arrangement is changed by the parityinterleaving to the original arrangement) corresponding to the parityinterleaving, block deinterleaving corresponding to the blockinterleaving, and group-wise deinterleaving corresponding to thegroup-wise interleaving in the bit deinterleaver 165.

In the bit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 208, the block deinterleaver 54that performs the block deinterleaving corresponding to the blockinterleaving, and the group-wise deinterleaver 55 that performs thegroup-wise deinterleaving corresponding to the group-wise interleavingare provided. However, the block that performs the parity deinterleavingcorresponding to the parity interleaving is not provided, and thus, theparity deinterleaving is not performed.

Accordingly, the LDPC code on which the block deinterleaving and thegroup-wise deinterleaving have been performed and the paritydeinterleaving has not been performed is supplied to the LDPC decoder166 from (the group-wise deinterleaver 55 of) the bit deinterleaver 165.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs the LDPC decoding on the LDPC code fromthe bit deinterleaver 165 by using a transformation check matrix (or thetransformation check matrix (FIG. 29) obtained by performing rowpermutation on the parity check matrix of the ETRI method (FIG. 27))obtained by at least performing column permutation corresponding to theparity interleaving on the parity check matrix H of the DVB method usedin the LDPC encoding performed by the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8, andoutputs data obtained as the result as a decoded result of the LDPCtarget data.

FIG. 209 is a flowchart for describing the process performed by thedemapper 164, the bit deinterleaver 165 and the LDPC decoder 166 of FIG.208.

In step S111, the demapper 164 performs quadrature demodulation bydemapping the data (data on the constellation mapped to the signalpoint) from the time deinterleaver 163, and supplies data obtained asthe result to the bit deinterleaver 165. The process then proceeds tostep S112.

In step S112, the bit deinterleaver 165 performs the deinterleaving (bitdeinterleaving) on the data from the demapper 164, and the processproceeds to step S113.

That is, in step S112, in the bit deinterleaver 165, the blockdeinterleaver 54 performs the block deinterleaving on the data (symbol)from the demapper 164 as a target, and supplies the code bits of theLDPC code obtained as the result to the group-wise deinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 performs the group-wise interleaving onthe LDPC code from the block deinterleaver 54 as a target, and supplies(the likelihood of) the LDPC code obtained as the result to the LDPCdecoder 166.

In step S113, the LDPC decoder 166 performs the LDPC decoding on theLDPC code from the group-wise deinterleaver 55 by using the parity checkmatrix H used in the LDPC encoding performed by the LDPC encoder 115 ofFIG. 8, that is, by using, for example, the transformation check matrixobtained from the parity check matrix H, and outputs data obtained asthe result as a decoded result of the LDPC target data to the BCHdecoder 167.

Similarly to the case of FIG. 9, for the sake of convenience in thedescription, even in FIG. 208, the block deinterleaver 54 that performsthe block deinterleaving and the group-wise deinterleaver 55 thatperforms the group-wise deinterleaving are individually provided, butthe block deinterleaver 54 and the group-wise deinterleaver 55 may beintegrally configured.

LDPC Decoding

The LDPC decoding performed in the LDPC decoder 166 of FIG. 207 will befurther described.

As described above, in the LDPC decoder 166 of FIG. 207, the LDPCdecoding is performed on the LDPC code from the group-wise deinterleaver55 on which the block deinterleaving and the group-wise deinterleavinghave been performed and the parity deinterleaving has not been performedby using the transformation check matrix (or the transformation checkmatrix (FIG. 29) obtained by performing the row permutation on theparity check matrix of the ETRI method (FIG. 27)) obtained by at leastperforming the column permutation corresponding to the paritydeinterleaving on the parity check matrix H of the DVB method used inthe LDPC encoding performed by the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8.

Here, it has been previously suggested to use the LDPC decoding capableof allowing an operation frequency to fall within a sufficientlyrealizable range while suppressing a circuit scale by performing theLDPC decoding using the transformation check matrix (for example, seeU.S. Pat. No. 4,224,777).

The LDPC decoding using the transformation check matrix that has beenpreviously suggested will be described with reference to FIGS. 210 to213.

FIG. 210 is a diagram showing an example of a parity check matrix H ofthe LDPC code having a code length N of 90 and a code rate of 2/3.

In FIG. 210 (similarly in FIGS. 211 and 212 to be described below), 0 isrepresented as a period (.).

In the parity check matrix H of FIG. 210, the parity matrix has the dualdiagonal structure.

FIG. 211 is a diagram showing a parity check matrix H′ obtained byperforming row permutation of Expression (11) and column permutation ofExpression (12) on the parity check matrix H of FIG. 210.

Row permutation: (6s+t+1)-th row→(5t+s+1)-th row  (11)

Column permutation: (6x+y+61)-th column→(5y+x+61)-th column  (12)

Here, in Expressions (11) and (12), s, t, x and y are respectivelyintegers in a range of 0s≤5, 0≤t<6, 0≤x<5, and 0≤t<6.

According to the row permutation of Expression (11), the 1^(st), 7^(th),13^(th), 19^(th) and 25^(th) rows which have a remainder of 1 by beingdivided by 6 are respectively permuted to the 1st, 2^(nd), 3^(rd),4^(th), and 5^(th) throws, and the 2^(nd), 8^(th), 14^(th), 20^(th) and26^(th) rows which have a remainder of 2 by being divided by 6 arerespectively permuted to the 6th, 7^(th), 8 ^(th), 9^(th) and 10^(th)rows.

According to the column permutation of Expression (12), the permutationis performed on the 61^(st) column and the subsequent columns (paritymatrix) such that the 61^(st), 67^(th), 73^(rd), 79^(th) and 85^(th)columns which have a remainder of 1 by being divided by 6 arerespectively permuted to the 61^(st), 62^(nd), 63^(rd), 64^(th) and65^(th) columns, and 62^(nd), 68th, 74^(th), 80^(th) and 86^(th) columnswhich have a remainder 2 by being divided by 6 are respectively permutedto the 66^(th), 67^(th), 69^(th), 69^(th) and 70^(th) columns.

In this manner, the matrix obtained by performing the row and columnpermutations on the parity check matrix H of FIG. 210 is the paritycheck matrix H′ of FIG. 211.

Here, the arrangement of the code bits of the LDPC code are notinfluenced even when the row permutation of the parity check matrix H isperformed.

The column permutation of Expression (12) corresponds to the parityinterleaving when the information length K is 60, the unit size P is 5and the divisor q(=M/P) of the parity length M (here, 30) is 6 in theparity interleaving that interleaves the (K+qx+y+1)-th code bit into theposition of the (K+Py+x+1)-th code bit.

Accordingly, the parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 211 is a transformationcheck matrix obtained by at least performing the column permutation forpermuting the (K+qx+y+1)-th column of the parity check matrix(hereinafter, appropriately referred to as an original parity checkmatrix) H of FIG. 210 to the (K+Py+x+1)-th column.

When the LDPC code of the original parity check matrix H of FIG. 210 ismultiplied by the LDPC code on which the same permutation as Expression(12) has been performed, a 0 vector is output to the transformationcheck matrix H′ of FIG. 211. That is, when a row vector obtained byperforming the column permutation of Expression (12) on the row vector cas the LDPC code (one codeword) of the original parity check matrix H isexpressed as c′, since Hc^(T) becomes the 0 vector in view of propertiesof the parity check matrix, H′c′^(T) also becomes the 0 vector.

As stated above, the transformation parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 211is a parity check matrix of the LDPC code c′ obtained by performing thecolumn permutation of Expression (12) on the LDPC code c of the originalparity check matrix H.

Accordingly, the column permutation of Expression (12) is performed onthe LDPC code c of the original parity check matrix H, and decoding(LDPC decoding) is performed on the LDPC code c′ after the columnpermutation by using the transformation check matrix H′ of FIG. 211. Asthe decoded result, since reverse permutation of the column permutationof Expression (12) is performed, it is possible to obtain the samedecoded result as that in the decoding of the LDPC code of the originalparity check matrix H using the parity check matrix H.

FIG. 212 is a diagram showing the transformation check matrix H′ of FIG.211 with a predetermined space for every 5×5 matrix.

In FIG. 212, the transformation check matrix H′ is represented as acombination of a 5×5 (=p×p) unit matrix which is the unit size P, a unit(hereinafter, appropriately referred to as a quasi-unit matrix) in whichone or more is of the unit matrix become 0s, a matrix (hereinafter,approximately referred to as a shift matrix) obtained by cyclic-shiftingthe unit matrix or the quasi-unit matrix, the sum (hereinafter,appropriately referred to as a sum matrix) of two or more matrices ofthe unit matrix, the quasi-unit matrix and the shift matrix, and a 5×5 0matrix.

The transformation check matrix H′ of FIG. 212 may include the 5×5 unitmatrix, the quasi-unit matrix, the shift matrix, the sum matrix, and the0 matrix. Thus, hereinafter, these 5×5 matrices (the unit matrix, thequasi-unit matrix, the shift matrix, the sum matrix, and the 0 matrix)constituting the transformation check matrix H′ are appropriatelyreferred to as constitutive matrices.

It is possible to use an architecture in which the check nodecalculation and the variable node calculation are simultaneouslyperformed p times in the decoding of the LDPC code of the parity checkmatrix represented as P×P constitutive matrices.

FIG. 213 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of adecoding device that performs such decoding.

That is, FIG. 213 shows the configuration example of the decoding devicethat performs decoding on the LDPC code by using the transformationcheck matrix H′ of FIG. 212 obtained by at least performing the columnpermutation of Expression (12) on the original parity check matrix H ofFIG. 210.

The decoding device of FIG. 213 includes an edge data storing memory 300including six FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆, a selector 301 that selects theFIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆, a check node calculating unit 302, two cyclicshift circuits 303 and 308, an edge data storing memory 304 including 18FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₆, a selector 305 that selects the FIFOs 304 ₁ to304 ₁₆, a reception data memory 306 that stores reception data, avariable node calculating unit 307, a decoded word calculating unit 309,a reception data rearrangement unit 310, and a decoded datarearrangement unit 311.

A method of storing data in the edge data storing memories 300 and 304will be initially described.

The edge data storing memory 300 includes the FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆ ofwhich there are 6 which is a value obtained by dividing 30 which is thenumber of rows of the transformation check matrix H′ of FIG. 212 by 5which is the number of rows (unit size P) of the constitutive matrices.The FIFO 300 _(y) (y=1, 2, . . . , and 6) includes storage regions ofmultiple stages, and messages corresponding to five edges of which thenumber thereof corresponds to the number of the rows and the number ofcolumns (unit size P) can be simultaneously read from and written in thestorage region of each stage. The number of the stages of the storageregions of the FIFO 300 _(y) is 9 which is the maximum number of thenumber of 1s (Hamming weight) of the transformation check matrix of FIG.212 in the row direction.

Data (message v_(i) from the variable nodes) corresponding to thepositions of 1s from the first row to the fifth row of thetransformation check matrix H′ of FIG. 212 is stored in the FIFO 300 ₁while the data and the respective rows fill in the transverse direction(0 is ignored). That is, when an element in the j-th row and the i-thcolumn is represented as (j, i), data corresponding to the positions of1s of the 5×5 unit matrix from (1, 1) to (5, 5) of the transformationcheck matrix H′ is stored in the storage region of the first stage ofthe FIFO 300 ₁. Data corresponding to the positions of 1s of the shiftmatrix (matrix obtained by cyclic-shifting the 5×5 unit matrix to theright by 3) from (1, 21) to (5, 25) of the transformation check matrixH′ is stored in the storage region of the second stage. Similarly, dataare stored in the storage regions of the third and eighth stages so asto be associated with the transformation check matrix H′. Datacorresponding to the positions of 1s of the shift matrix (matrixobtained by cyclic-shifting a matrix obtained by replacing 1s of thefirst row of the 5×5 unit matrix with 0s to the right by 1) from (1, 86)to (5, 90) of the transformation check matrix H′ is stored in thestorage region of the ninth stage.

Data corresponding to the positions of 1s from the sixth row to thetenth row of the transformation check matrix H′ of FIG. 212 is stored inthe FIFO 300 ₂. That is, data corresponding to the positions of 1s ofthe first shift matrix constituting the sum matrix (sum matrix which isthe sum of the first shift matrix obtained by cyclic-shifting the 5×5unit matrix to the right by 1 and the second shift matrix obtained bycyclic-shifting the 5×5 unit matrix to the right by 2) from (6, 1) to(10, 5) of the transformation check matrix H′ is stored in the storageregion of the first stage of the FIFO 300 ₂. Further, data correspondingto the positions of 1s of the second shift matrix constituting the summatrix from (6, 1) to (10, 5) of the transformation check matrix H′ isstored in the storage region of the second stage.

That is, in the case of the constitutive matrices having two or moreweights, when the constitutive matrices are represented as the sum ofmultiple matrices of a P×P unit matrix having a weight of 1, aquasi-unit matrix in which one or more 1s of the elements of 1s of theunit matrix become 0s, and a shift matrix obtained by cyclic-shiftingthe unit matrix or the quasi-unit matrix, data (messages correspondingto the edges belonging to the unit matrix, the quasi-unit matrix or theshift matrix) corresponding to the positions of 1s of the unit matrixhaving the weight of 1, the quasi-unit matrix or the shift matrix isstored in the same address (the same FIFO of the FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆).

Hereinafter, data are stored in the storage regions of the third toninth stages so as to be associated with the transformation check matrixH′.

Similarly, data are stored in the FIFOs 300 ₃ to 300 ₆ so as to beassociated with the transformation check matrix H′.

The edge data storing memory 304 includes FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈ of whichthere are 18 which is a value obtained by dividing 90 which is thenumber of rows of the transformation check matrix H′ by 5 which is thenumber of columns (unit size P) of the constitutive matrices. The FIFO304 _(x) (x=1, 2, . . . , and 18) includes storage regions of multiplestages, and messages corresponding to five edges of which the numberthereof corresponds to the number of rows and the number of columns(unit size P) can be simultaneously read from and written in the storageregions of the multiple stages.

Data (messages u_(j) from the check nodes) corresponding to thepositions of 1s from the first column to the fifth column of thetransformation check matrix H′ of FIG. 212 are stored in the FIFO 304 ₁while the data and the respective columns fill in the longitudinaldirection (0 is ignored). That is, data corresponding to the positionsof 1s of the 5×5 unit matrix from (1, 1) to (5, 5) of the transformationcheck matrix H′ is stored in the storage region of the first stage ofthe FIFO 304 ₁. Data corresponding to the positions of 1s of the firstshift matrix constituting the sum matrix (sum matrix of the first shiftmatrix obtained by cyclic-shifting the 5×5 unit matrix to the right by 1and the second shift matrix obtained by cyclic-shifting the 5×5 unitmatrix to the right by 2) from (6, 1) to (10, 5) of the transformationcheck matrix H′ is stored in the storage region of the second stage.Furthermore, data corresponding to the positions of 1s of the secondshift matrix constituting the sum matrix from (6, 1) to (10, 5) of thetransformation check matrix H′ is stored in the storage region of thethird stage.

That is, in the case of the constitutive matrices having two or moreweights, when the constitutive matrices are represented as the sum ofmultiple matrices of a P×P unit matrix having a weight of 1, aquasi-unit matrix in which one or more 1s of the elements of 1s of theunit matrix become 0s, and a shift matrix obtained by cyclic-shiftingthe unit matrix or the quasi-unit matrix, data (messages correspondingto the edges belonging to the unit matrix, the quasi-unit matrix or theshift matrix) corresponding to the positions of 1s of the unit matrixhaving the weight of 1, the quasi-unit matrix or the shift matrix isstored in the same address (the same FIFO of the FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈).

Hereinafter, data are stored in the storage regions of the fourth andfifth stages so as to be associated with the transformation check matrixH′. The number of the stages of the storage regions of the FIFO 304 ₁ is5 which is the maximum number of the number of 1s (Hamming weight) fromthe first column to the fifth column of the transformation check matrixH′ in the row direction.

Similarly, data are stored in the FIFOs 304 ₂ to 304 ₃ so as to beassociated with the transformation check matrix H′, and the respectivelengths thereof (the number of stages) are 5. Similarly, data are storedin the FIFOs 304 ₄ to 304 ₁₂ so as to be associated with thetransformation check matrix H′, and the respective lengths thereof are3. Similarly, data are stored in the FIFOs 304 ₁₃ to 304 ₁₈ so as to beassociated with the transformation check matrix H′, and the respectivelengths thereof are 2.

Next, the operation of the decoding device of FIG. 213 will bedescribed.

The edge data storing memory 300 includes the 6 FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆,and the FIFO for storing data is selected from the FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆based on information (matrix data) D312 indicating a row of thetransformation check matrix H′ of FIG. 212 to which 5 messages D311supplied from the cyclic shift circuit 308 at the previous stage belong,and the five messages D311 are sequentially stored in the selected FIFOall at once. When data is read, the edge data storing memory 300sequentially reads the five messages D300 ₁ from the FIFO 300 ₁, andsupplies the read messages to the selector 301 at the next stage. Afterthe reading of the messages from the FIFO 300 ₁ is finished, the edgedata storing memory 300 sequentially reads the messages from the FIFO300 ₂ to 300 ₆, and supplies the read messages to the selector 301.

The selector 301 selects the five messages from the FIFO of the FIFOs300 ₁ to 300 ₆ from which the data is currently being read in responseto a selector signal D301, and supplies the selected messages asmessages D302 to the check node calculating unit 302.

The check node calculating unit 302 includes five check node calculators302 ₁ to 302 ₅, performs the check node calculation according toExpression (7) by using the messages D302 (D302 ₁ to D302 ₅) (messagesv_(i) of Expression (7)) supplied through the selector 301, and suppliesfive messages D303 (D303 ₁ to D303 ₅) (messages u_(j) of Expression (7))obtained as the result of the check node calculation to the cyclic shiftcircuit 303.

The cyclic shift circuit 303 performs cyclic-shifting of the fivemessages D303 ₁ to D303 ₅ obtained in the check node calculating unit302 based on information (matrix data) D305 indicating the correspondingedge based on how many times the cyclic-shifting is performed on theunit matrix (or the qausi-unit matrix) as the original matrix in thetransformation check matrix H′, and supplies the result as a messageD304 to the edge data storing memory 304.

The edge data storing memory 304 includes the 18 FIFO 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈,and the FIFO for storing data is selected from the FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈based on information D305 indicating the row of the transformation checkmatrix H′ to which the 5 messages D304 supplied from the cyclic shiftcircuit 303 at the previous stage belong, and the five messages D304 aresequentially stored in the selected FIFO all at once. When data is read,the edge data storing memory 304 sequentially reads the five messagesD306 ₁ from the FIFO 304 ₁, and supplies the read messages to theselector 305 at the next stage. After the reading of the data from theFIFO 304 ₁ is finished, the edge data storing memory 304 sequentiallyreads the messages from the FIFO 304 ₂ to 304 ₁₈, and supplies the readmessages to the selector 305.

The selector 305 selects the five messages from the FIFO of the FIFOs304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈ from which the data is currently being read in responseto a selector signal D307, and supplies the selected messages asmessages D308 to the variable node calculating unit 307 and the decodedword calculating unit 309.

Meanwhile, the reception data rearrangement unit 310 rearranges an LDPCcode D313 corresponding to the parity check matrix H of FIG. 210 whichis received through the communication channel 13 by the columnpermutation of Expression (12), and supplies the rearranged LDPC code asreception data D314 to the reception data memory 306. The reception datamemory 306 calculates reception LLRs (log-likelihood ratios) from thereception data D314 supplied from the reception data rearrangement unit310, and supplies the reception LLRs as reception values D309 to thevariable node calculating unit 307 and the decoded word calculating unit309 by 5 LLRs all at once.

The variable node calculating unit 307 includes the five variable nodecalculators 307 ₁ to 307 ₅, performs the variable node calculationaccording to Expression (1) by using the messages D308 (D308 ₁ to D308₅) (messages u_(j) of Expression (1)) supplied through the selector 305and the five reception values D309 (reception values u_(0i) ofExpression (1)) supplied from the reception data memory 306, andsupplies messages D310 (D310 ₁ to D310 ₅) (messages v_(i) of Expression(1)) to the cyclic shift circuit 308.

The cyclic shift circuit 308 performs the cyclic-shifting the messagesD310 ₁ to D310 ₅ calculated in the variable node calculating unit 307based on information indicating the corresponding edge based on how manytimes the cyclic-shifting is performed on the unit matrix (or theqausi-unit matrix) as the original matrix in the transformation checkmatrix H′, and supplies the result as a message D311 to the edge datastoring memory 300.

It is possible to perform one decoding process (variable nodecalculation and check node calculation) on the LDPC code by performingthe aforementioned operation once. After the LDPC code is decoded by apredetermined number of times, the decoding device of FIG. 213 obtains afinal decoded result and outputs the obtained result in the decoded wordcalculating unit 309 and the decoded data rearrangement unit 311.

That is, the decoded word calculating unit 309 includes five decodedword calculators 309 ₁ to 309 ₅, calculates the decoded result (decodedword) based on Expression (5) by using the five messages D308 (D308 ₁ toD308 ₅) (messages u_(j) of Expression (5)) output from the selector 305and the five reception values D309 (reception values u_(0i) ofExpression (5)) supplied from the reception data memory 306, as thefinal stage of the multiple decoding processes, and supplies decodeddata D315 obtained as the result to the decoded data rearrangement unit311.

The decoded data rearrangement unit 311 rearranges the decoded data D315supplied from the decoded word calculating unit 309 by performingreverse permutation of the column permutation of Expression (12) on thedecoded data, and outputs the rearranged data as a final decoded resultD316.

As described above, by performing one or both of the row permutation andthe column permutation on the parity check matrix (original parity checkmatrix) and transforming the parity check matrix to the parity checkmatrix (transformation check matrix) capable of being represented as thecombination of the P×P unit matrix, the qausi-unit matrix in which oneor more 1s of the elements of 1s of the unit matrix become 0s, the shiftmatrix obtained by cyclic-shifting the unit matrix or the qausi-unitmatrix, the sum matrix which is the sum of multiple matrices of the unitmatrix, the qausi-unit matrix and the shift matrix, and the P×P 0matrix, that is, the combination of the constitutive matrices, it ispossible to adopt the architecture in which the check node calculationand the variable node calculation are simultaneously performed P timeswhich is less than the number of rows and the number of columns in thedecoding of the LDPC code. When the architecture in which the nodecalculations (the check node calculation and the variable nodecalculation) are simultaneously performed P times which is less than thenumber of rows and the number of column of the parity check matrix isadopted, it is possible to allow the operation frequency to fall withinthe realizable range and to repeatedly perform the decoding multipletimes unlike in the case where the node calculations are simultaneouslyperformed by the number equal to the number of rows and the number ofcolumns of the parity check matrix.

Similarly to the decoding device of FIG. 213, for example, the LDPCdecoder 166 constituting the reception apparatus 12 of FIG. 207 isconfigured to perform the LDPC decoding by simultaneously performing thecheck node calculation and the variable node calculation P times.

That is, for the sake of convenience in the description, when the paritycheck matrix of the LDPC code output from the LDPC encoder 115constituting the transmission apparatus 11 of FIG. 8 is, for example,the parity check matrix H which is shown in FIG. 210 and includes theparity matrix having the dual diagonal structure, in the parityinterleaver 23 of the transmission apparatus 11, the parity interleavingthat interleaves the (K+qx+y+1)-th code bit to the position of the(K+Py+x+1)-th code bit is performed while the information length K is60, the unit size P is 5 and the divisor q (=M/P) of the parity length Mis 6.

As mentioned above, since the parity interleaving corresponds to thecolumn permutation of Expression (12), it is not necessary to performthe column permutation of Expression (12) in the LDPC decoder 166.

For this reason, in the reception apparatus 12 of FIG. 207, the LDPCcode on which the parity interleaving has not been performed, that is,the LDPC code on which the column permutation of Expression (12) hasbeen performed is supplied to the LDPC decoder 166 from the group-wisedeinterleaver 55, and the same processing as that of the decoding deviceof FIG. 213 is performed in the LDPC decoder 166 except for the factthat the column permutation of Expression (12) is not performed.

That is, FIG. 214 is a diagram showing a configuration example of theLDPC decoder 166 of FIG. 207.

In FIG. 214, since the LDPC decoder 166 has the same configuration asthat of the decoding device of FIG. 213 except for the fact that thereception data rearrangement unit 310 of FIG. 213 is not provided andperforms the same processing as that of the decoding device of FIG. 213except for the fact that the column permutation of Expression (12) isnot performed, the description thereof will be omitted.

As stated above, since the LDPC decoder 166 can be configured withoutincluding the reception data rearrangement unit 310, it is possible toreduce the scale further than that of the decoding device of FIG. 213.

For the sake of convenience in the description, in FIGS. 210 to 214, thecode length N of the LDPC code is 90, the information length K is 60,the unit size (the number of rows and the number of columns of theconstitutive matrices) P is 5, and the divisor q (=M/P) of the paritylength M is 6. However, the code length N, the information length K, theunit size P, and the divisor q (=M/P) are not limited to theaforementioned values.

That is, in the transmission apparatus 11 of FIG. 8, the LDPC encoder115 outputs, for example, the LDPC code in which the code length N is64,800 or 16,200, the information length K is N−Pq(=N−M), the unit sizeP is 360 and the divisor q is M/P. However, it is possible to apply theLDPC decoder 166 of FIG. 214 to the case where the LDPC decoding isperformed by simultaneously performing the check node calculation andthe variable node calculation on the LDPC code P times.

Moreover, after the LDPC code is decoded in the LDPC decoder 166, whenthe part of the parity bits of the decoded result is not necessary andonly the information bits of the decoded result are output, it ispossible to configure the LDPC decoder 166 without providing the decodeddata rearrangement unit 311.

Configuration Example of Block Deinterleaver 54

FIG. 215 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the blockdeinterleaver 54 of FIG. 208.

The block deinterleaver 54 has the same configuration as that of theblock interleaver 25 described in FIG. 105.

Accordingly, the block deinterleaver 54 includes the storage regioncalled the part 1, and the storage region called the part 2, and both ofthe parts 1 and 2 are configured in such a manner that columns as thestorage regions that store one bit in the row direction and store thepredetermined number of bits in the column direction are arranged in therow direction by the number C equal to the number of bits m of thesymbol.

The block deinterleaver 54 performs block interleaving by writing andreading the LDPC code in and from the parts 1 and 2.

In the block deinterleaving, the writing of the LDPC code (which is thesymbol) is performed in the reading order of the LDPC code by the blockinterleaver 25 of FIG. 105.

In addition, in the block deinterleaving, the reading of the LDPC codeis performed in the writing order of the LDPC code by the blockinterleaver 25 of FIG. 105.

That is, in the block interleaving performed in the block interleaver 25of FIG. 105, the LDPC code is written in the column direction and isread in the row direction with respect to the parts 1 and 2. However, inthe block deinterleaving performed by the block deinterleaver 54 of FIG.215, the LDPC code is written in the row direction and is read in thecolumn direction with respect to the parts 1 and 2.

Another Configuration Example of Bit Deinterleaver 165

FIG. 216 is a block diagram showing another configuration example of thebit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 207.

In the drawing, the parts corresponding to the parts of FIG. 208 will beassigned the same reference numerals, and the description thereof willbe appropriately omitted in the following description.

That is, the bit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 216 has the sameconfiguration as that of FIG. 208 except for the fact that the paritydeinterleaver 1011 is newly provided.

In FIG. 216, the bit deinterleaver 165 includes a block deinterleaver54, a group-wise deinterleaver 55, and a parity deinterleaver 1011, andperforms bit interleaving on the code bits of the LDPC code from thedemapper 164.

That is, the block deinterleaver 54 performs the block deinterleaving(reverse processing of the block interleaving) corresponding to theblock interleaving performed by the block interleaver 25 of thetransmission apparatus 11, that is, the block deinterleaving thatreturns the positions of the code bits switched by the blockinterleaving to the original positions on the LDPC code from thedemapper 164 as a target, and supplies the LDPC code obtained as theresult to the group-wise deinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 performs the group-wise deinterleavingcorresponding to the group-wise interleaving as rearrangement processingperformed by the group-wise interleaver 24 of the transmission apparatus11 on the LDPC code from the block deinterleaver 54 as a target.

The LDPC code obtained as the result of the group-wise deinterleaving issupplied to the parity deinterleaver 1011 from the group-wisedeinterleaver 55.

The parity deinterleaver 1011 performs parity deinterleaving (reverseprocessing of the parity interleaving) corresponding to the parityinterleaving performed by the parity interleaver 23 of the transmissionapparatus 11, that is, parity deinterleaving that returns the code bitsof the LDPC code whose arrangement is changed by the parity interleavingto the original rearrangement on the code bits on which the group-wisedeinterleaving in the group-wise deinterleaver 55 has been performed asa target.

The LDPC code obtained as the result of the parity deinterleaving issupplied to the LDPC decoder 166 from the parity deinterleaver 1011.

Accordingly, in the bit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 216, the LDPC code onwhich the block deinterleaving, the group-wise deinterleaving and theparity deinterleaving have been performed, that is, the LDPC codeobtained by the LDPC encoding according to the parity check matrix H issupplied to the LDPC decoder 166.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs the LDPC decoding on the LDPC code fromthe bit deinterleaver 165 by using the parity check matrix H used in theLDPC encoding performed by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmissionapparatus 11. That is, the LDPC decoder 166 performs the LDPC decodingon the LDPC code from the bit deinterleaver 165 by using the paritycheck matrix H (of the DVB method) used in the LDPC encoding performedby the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmission apparatus 11, using thetransformation check matrix obtained by at least performing the columnpermutation corresponding to the parity interleaving on the parity checkmatrix H (in the ETRI method, parity check matrix (FIG. 28) obtained byperforming the column permutation on the parity check matrix (FIG. 27)used in the LDPC encoding), or using the transformation check matrix(FIG. 29) obtained by performing the row permutation on the parity checkmatrix (FIG. 27) used in the LDPC encoding.

Here, in FIG. 216, since the LDPC code obtained by the LDPC encodingaccording to the parity check matrix H is supplied to the LDPC decoder166 from (the parity deinterleaver 1011 of) the bit deinterleaver 165,when the LDPC decoding on the LDPC code is performed using the paritycheck matrix H (of the DVB method) used in the LDPC encoding performedby the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmission apparatus 11 (in the ETRImethod, the parity check matrix (FIG. 28) obtained by performing thecolumn permutation on the parity check matrix (FIG. 27) used in the LDPCencoding), the LDPC decoder 166 may be configured using a decodingdevice that performs the LDPC decoding using, for example, a full serialdecoding scheme in which the calculation of the messages (check nodemessages and the variable node messages) is sequentially performed onthe nodes bit by bit or a decoding device that performs the LDPCdecoding using a full parallel decoding scheme in which the calculationof the messages is simultaneously performed on all of the nodes (inparallel).

When the LDPC decoding on the LDPC code is performed using thetransformation check matrix obtained by at least performing the columnpermutation corresponding to the parity interleaving (in the ETRImethod, the transformation check matrix (FIG. 29) obtained by performingthe row permutation on the parity check matrix (FIG. 27) used in theLDPC encoding) on the parity check matrix H (of the DVB method) used inthe LDPC encoding performed by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmissionapparatus 11 in the LDPC decoder 166, the LDPC decoder 166 may beconfigured as a decoding device of an architecture in which the checknode calculation and the variable node calculation are simultaneouslyperformed P (or divisors of P other than 1) times. Here, the decodingdevice may be a decoding device (FIG. 213) having the reception datarearrangement unit 310 that switches the code bits of the LDPC code byperforming the same column permutation as the column permutation (parityinterleaving) for obtaining the transformation check matrix on the LDPCcode.

For the sake in convenience in the description, in FIG. 216, the blockdeinterleaver 54 that performs the block deinterleaving, the group-wisedeinterleaver 55 that performs the group-wise deinterleaving, and theparity deinterleaver 1011 that performs the parity deinterleaving areindividually configured. However, similarly to the parity interleaver23, the group-wise interleaver 24 and the block interleaver 25 of thetransmission apparatus 11, two or more of the block deinterleaver 54,the group-wise deinterleaver 55 and the parity deinterleaver 1011 may beintegrally configured.

2. Second Embodiment

However, in ATSC 3.0, two types of methods including a type A and a typeB are adopted as the block interleaving method performed in (the blockinterleaver of) the bit interleaver 116 of FIG. 8.

Here, the block interleaving of the type A is a method in which thewriting of the LDPC code on which the group-wise interleaving has beenperformed in the column direction of columns as m number of storageregions that are arranged in the row direction is iteratively performedon m number of columns. The block interleaving of the type B is a methodin which the writing of the LDPC code on which the group-wiseinterleaving has been performed for every bit group in the row directionof m number of columns is iteratively performed.

As stated above, since the two types of methods including the type A andthe type B are adopted as the block interleaving method, in thetransmission apparatus 11, when the block interleaving is performed by(the block interleaver) of the bit interleaver 116, the LDPC code iswritten in and read from the storage regions depending on the type A orthe type B.

However, in the block interleaving of the type A and the blockinterleaving of the type B, since the writing method and a part of thereading method performed on the storage regions are different, it isnecessary to provide two types of address generating circuits forgenerating a write address of the LDPC code and a read address of theLDPC code in (the block interleaver of) the bit interleaver 116.

Similarly, in the reception apparatus 12, even when the blockdeinterleaving is performed by (the block deinterleaver of) the bitdeinterleaver 165, the reading method and a part of the writing methodperformed on the storage regions are different depending on the type.For this reason, it is necessary to provide two types of addressgenerating circuits for generating a read address of the LDPC code and awrite address of the LDPC code in (the block deinterleaver of) the bitdeinterleaver 165.

As mentioned above, since it is necessary to provide two types ofaddress generating circuits by adopting two types of method includingthe type A and the type B as the block interleaving method, it has beenrequested that the two types of methods including the type A and thetype B efficiently coexist by realizing the block interleaving of thetype A and the block interleaving of the type B by using a commonaddress generating circuit.

Thus, as the second embodiment, a method of allowing a plurality ofblock interleaving methods (type A and type B) to efficiently coexist inthe data transmission using the LDPC code will be described.

Configuration Example of Bit Interleaver 116

FIG. 217 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the bitinterleaver 116 of FIG. 8.

In the drawing, the parts corresponding to those in FIG. 9 will beassigned the same reference numerals, and the description thereof willbe appropriately omitted in the following description.

That is, the bit interleaver 116 of FIG. 217 has the shame configurationas that in FIG. 9 except for the fact that a group-wise interleaver 1021and a block interleaver 1022 are provided instead of the group-wiseinterleaver 24 and the block interleaver 25 of FIG. 9.

In FIG. 217, the bit interleaver 116 includes the parity interleaver 23,the group-wise interleaver 1021, and the block interleaver 1022, andperforms bit interleaving on the code bits of the LDPC code from theLDPC encoder 115.

The group-wise interleaver 1021 performs group-wise interleaving on theLDPC code from the parity interleaver 23, and supplies the LDPC code onwhich the group-wise interleaving has been performed to the blockinterleaver 1022.

Here, when it is assumed that the block interleaving of the type B isperformed, the group-wise interleaver 1021 rewrites the GW pattern forthe block interleaving of the type B into the GW pattern for the blockinterleaving of the type A such that when the block interleaving of thetype A is performed, the same block interleaving result as that when theblock interleaving of the type B is performed is obtained.

Further, when it is assumed that the block interleaving of the type A isperformed, the group-wise interleaver 1021 rewrites the GW pattern forthe block interleaving of the type A into the GW pattern for the blockinterleaving of the type B such that when the block interleaving of thetype B is performed, the same block interleaving result as that when theblock interleaving of the type A is performed is obtained.

For example, the block interleaver 1022 symbolizes the LDPC codecorresponding to one code to a m-bit symbol which is a unit of mappingby performing the block interleaving for demultiplexing the LDPC codefrom the group-wise interleaver 1021, and supplies the symbol to themapper 117 (FIG. 8).

The block interleaver 1022 corresponds to the block interleaving of thetype A or the type B, and can perform the block interleaving of the typeA or the type B.

Block Interleaver 1022 Corresponding to Block Interleaving of Type A

Here, the block interleaving of the type A will be described. FIG. 218is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the blockinterleaver 1022 (FIG. 217) corresponding to the block interleaving ofthe type A.

The block interleaver 1022 corresponding to the block interleaving ofthe type A includes a storage region called a part 1, and a storageregion called to a part 2.

Both of the parts 1 and 2 are configured in such a manner that columnsas storage regions which store one bit in the row (transverse) directionand store a predetermined number of bits in the column (longitudinal)direction are arranged in the row direction by the number C equal to thenumber of bits m of the symbol.

When a part column length of the part 1 which is the number of bitsstored in the column direction by columns of the part 1 is representedas R1 and a part column length of columns of the part 2 is representedas R2, (R1+R2)×C is equal to the code length N (64,800 bits or 16,200bits in the second embodiment) of the LDPC code to be subject to theinterleaving.

Moreover, the part column length R1 is equal to a multiple of 360 bitswhich is the unit size P, and the part column length R2 is equal to aremainder obtained by dividing a column length R1+R2 which is the sum ofthe part column length R1 of the part 1 and the part column length R2 ofthe part 2 by 360 bits which is the unit size P.

Here, the column length R1+R2 is equal to a value obtained by dividingthe code length N of the LDPC code to be subjected to the blockinterleaving by m which is the number of bits of the symbol.

For example, when the modulation scheme of 16-QAM is performed on theLDPC code having a length code N of 16,200 bits, since the number ofbits m of the symbol is 4 bits, the column length R1+R2 is 4,050(=16,200/4) bits.

Further, since the remainder obtained by dividing the column lengthR1+R2=4,050 by 360 bits which is the unit size P is 90, the part columnlength R2 of the part 2 is 90 bits.

The part column length R1 of the part 1 is R1+R2-R2=4,050−90=3,960 bits.

FIG. 219 is a diagram showing the number of columns C of the parts 1 and2 for combinations of the code lengths N and the modulation schemes andthe part column lengths (the number of rows) R1 and R2.

FIG. 219 shows the number of columns C of the parts 1 and 2 for thecombinations of the LDPC codes having the code lengths N of 16,200 bitsand 64,800 bits and the modulation schemes of QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM,256-QAM, 1024-QAM, and 4096-QAM and the part column lengths R1 and R2.

FIG. 220 is a diagram for describing the block interleaving of the typeA performed in the block interleaver 1022 (FIG. 217).

The block interleaver 1022 performs the block interleaving of the type Aby writing and reading the LDPC code in and from the parts 1 and 2.

That is, as shown in FIG. 220A, in the block interleaving of the type A,the writing of the code bits of the LDPC code of one codeword from thetop to the bottom (in the column direction) of the columns of the part 1is performed in the columns from the left to the right.

When the writing of the code bits in the bottommost region of therightmost column (C-th column) of the columns of the part 1 is ended,the writing of the remaining code bits in the columns of the part 2 fromthe top to the bottom (in the column direction) is performed in thecolumns from the left to the right.

Subsequently, when the writing of the code bits in the bottommost regionof the rightmost column (C-th column) of the columns of the part 2 isended, the code bits are read from the first rows of all of C number ofcolumns of the part 1 in the row direction for every C=m bits, as shownin FIG. 220B.

The reading of the code bits from all of C number of columns of the part1 is sequentially performed in the lower rows, and when the reading fromthe R1 row which is the last row is ended, the code bits are read fromthe first rows of all of C number of columns of the part 2 in the rowdirection for every C=m bits.

The reading of the code bits from all of C number of columns of the part2 is sequentially performed in the lower rows, and the reading isperformed up to the R2 row which is the last row.

In this manner, the code bits read from the parts 1 and 2 for every mbits are supplied as a symbol to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8).

Group-Wise Interleaving

FIG. 221 is a diagram for describing the group-wise interleavingperformed in the group-wise interleaver 1021 of FIG. 217.

In the group-wise interleaving, the LDPC code of one codeword isinterleaved for every bit group according to a predetermined pattern(hereinafter, referred to as a GW pattern) by using 360 bitscorresponding to one group obtained by dividing the LDPC code of onecodeword from the leading code for every 360 bits equal to the unit sizeP into the bit groups.

When the unit size P is 360 bits, the LDPC code having the code length Nof, for example, 1,800 bits is divided into 5 (=1,800/360) bit groups ofbit groups 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. For example, the LDPC code having the codelength N of 16,200 bits is divided into 45 (=16,200/360) bit groups ofbit groups 0, 1, and 44, and the LDPC code having the code length N of64,800 bits is divided into 180 (=64,800/360) bit groups of bit groups0, 1, . . . , and 179.

Hereinafter, the (i+1)-th bit group from the leading bit group when theLDPC code of one codeword is divided into the bit groups is representedas a bit group i. In the following description, it is assumed that theGW pattern is represented as the arrangement of numbers representing thebit groups. For example, the GW pattern of 4, 2, 0, 3, 1 for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 1,800 bits represents that thearrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 is interleaved (rearranged)into the arrangement of bit groups 4, 2, 0, 3 and 1.

Specific Example of Block Interleaving of Type A

Next, the bit interleaving performed in the bit interleaver 116including the block interleaver 1022 corresponding to the blockinterleaving of the type A will be described with reference to FIGS. 222and 223.

FIG. 222 shows a case 1 where the number of bit groups is N_(g)=12 andthe number of columns is N_(c)=4 as a specific example of the blockinterleaving of the type A. In FIG. 222, each bit group is divided forevery 360 bits.

In the case 1 of the block interleaving of the type A, a column lengthN_(r1) of the part 1 is floor(N_(g)/N_(c))×360=12/4×360=3×360 bits.Since a column length N_(r2) of the part 2 is(N_(g)×360−N_(r1)×N_(c))/N_(c)=(12×360−3×360×4)/4=0 bits, only thestorage region of the part 1 is used, and the storage region of the part2 is not used. A floor function is a function obtained by roundingnumbers after a decimal point.

In FIG. 222, a parity interleaver (PIL) output represents an output fromthe parity interleaver 23, that is, an input of the group-wiseinterleaver 1021, and a group-wise interleaver (GWI) output representsan output of the group-wise interleaver 1021. That is, the group-wiseinterleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangement of bit groups 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 into the arrangement of bit groups 4, 7,9, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 5, 11, 3, and 6 according to the GW pattern of 4, 7,9, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 5, 11, 3, 6.

The block interleaver 1022 performs the writing of the output from thegroup-wise interleaver 1021 in the columns of the part 1 from the top tothe bottom (in the column direction) in the columns from the left to theright.

Thus, as shown in “block interleaver (BLI) write” of FIG. 222, the codebits of the bit groups 4, 7 and 9 are written in the first column(leftmost column), the code bits of the bit groups 2, 12 and 8 arewritten in the second column, the code bits of the bit groups 10, 1 and5 are written in the third column, and the code bits of the bit groups11, 3 and 6 are written in the fourth column (rightmost column).

Thereafter, the writing of the code bits in the bottommost region of thefourth column (rightmost column) of the columns of the part 1 is ended,as shown in “BLI read” of FIG. 222, the code bits are read from thefirst rows of all of four columns of the part 1 in the row direction forevery C=m bits. The reading of the code bits from all of four columns ofthe part 1 is sequentially performed in the lower rows, and the readingis performed up to the last row.

In this manner, the code bits read from the part 1 for every m bits aresupplied as a symbol to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8). In the mapper 117, theLDPC code from the bit interleaver 116 is mapped to a signal point of 16(2 ⁴) signal points representing the symbol for every symbol.

FIG. 223 shows a case 2 where the number of bit groups is N_(g)=14 andthe number of columns is N_(c)=4 as a specific example of the blockinterleaving of the type A. In FIG. 223, each bit group is divided forevery 360 bits.

In the case 2 of the block interleaving of the type A, a column lengthN_(r1) of the part 1 is floor(N_(g)/N_(c))×360=14/4×360=3×360 bits.Since a column length N_(r2) of the part 2 is(N_(g)×360−N_(r1)×N_(c))/N_(c)=(14×360−3×360×4)/4=(2×360)/4=180 bits,the storage region of the part 2 is used in addition to the storageregion of the part 1.

In FIG. 223, the PIL output and the GWI output represent the input andoutput of the group-wise interleaver 1021. That is, the group-wiseinterleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangement of bit groups 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 into the arrangement of bit groups4, 7, 13, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 14, 11, 3, 6, 9, and 5 according to the GWpattern of 4, 7, 13, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 14, 11, 3, 6, 9, 5.

The block interleaver 1022 performs the writing of the output from thegroup-wise interleaver 1021 in the columns of the part 1 from the top tothe bottom (in the column direction) in the columns from the left to theright. When the writing of the code bits in the bottommost region of therightmost column of the columns of the part 1 is ended, the writing ofthe remaining code bits in the columns of the part 2 from the top to thebottom (in the column direction) is performed in the columns from theleft to the right.

Thus, as shown in “BLI write” of FIG. 223, in the part 1, the code bitsof the bit groups 4, 7, and 13 are written in the first column (leftmostcolumn), the code bits of the bit groups 2, 12, and 8 are written in thesecond column, the code bits of the bit groups 10, 1, and 14 are writtenin the third column, and the code bits of the bit groups 11, 3, and 6are written in the fourth column (rightmost column).

In the part 2, the coding bits of the bit group 9-1 are written in thefirst column (left most column), the coding bits of the bit group 9-2are written in the second column, the coding bits of the bit group 5-1are written in the third column, and the coding bits of the bit group5-2 are written in the fourth column (rightmost column).

Here, the bit group 9-1 and the bit group 9-2 are respectively 180 bits,and the bit group 9 is formed by these bit groups. The bit group 5-1 andthe bit group 5-2 are respectively 180 bits, and the bit group 5 isformed by these bit groups.

Subsequently, when the writing of the cod bits in the bottommost regionof the fourth column (rightmost column) of the columns of the part 2 isended, the code bits are read from the first rows of all of four columnsof the part 1 in the row direction for every C=m bits as shown in “BLIread” of FIG. 223.

The writing of the code bits from all of four columns of the part 1 issequentially performed in the lower rows, and when the reading from thelast row is ended, the code bits are read from the first rows of all offour columns of the part 2 in the row direction for every C=m bits.

The reading of the code bits from all of four columns of the part 2 issequentially performed in the lower rows, and is performed up to thelast row.

In this manner, the code bits read from the parts 1 and 2 for every mbits are supplied as the symbol to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8). In themapper 117, the LDPC code from the bit interleaver 116 is mapped to asignal point of 16 (2⁴) signal points representing the symbol for everysymbol.

Block Interleaver 1022 Corresponding to Block Interleaving of Type B

Next, the block interleaving of the type B will be described. FIG. 224is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the blockinterleaver 1022 (FIG. 217) corresponding to the block interleaving ofthe type B.

The block interleaver 1022 corresponding to the block interleaving ofthe type B includes a storage region called a part 1, and a storageregion called a part 2.

The part 1 is configured in such a manner that columns as storageregions that store one bit in the row (transverse) direction and store apredetermined number of bits in the column (longitudinal) direction arearranged in the row direction by the number C equal to the number ofbits m of the symbol. The part 2 is configured in such a manner thatrows as storage regions that store one bit in the column (longitudinal)direction and store a predetermined number of bits are arranged in therow (transverse) direction in the row direction.

When a part column length which is the number of bits stored in thecolumn direction by the columns of the part 1 is represented as R1 and alow length of the rows of the part 2 is represented as R2, R1×C+R2 isequal to the code length N (in the second embodiment, 64,800 bits or16,200 bits) of the LDPC code to be subject to the block interleaving.

The part column length R1 is equal to a multiple of 360 bits which isthe unit size P, and the row length R2 is equal to a value obtained bymultiplying the remainder when the column length R1+R2/C which is thesum of the part column length R1 of the part 1 and a value obtained bydividing the row length R2 by C is divided by 360 bits which is the unitsize P by C.

Here, the column length R1+R2/C is equal to a value obtained by dividingthe code length N of the LDPC code to be subject to the blockinterleaving by the number of bits m of the symbol.

For example, when the 16-QAM modulation scheme is performed on the LDPCcode having a code length N of 16,200 bits, since the number of bits mof the symbol is 4 bits, the column length R1+R2/C is 4,050 (=16,200/4)bits.

In addition, the remainder when the column length R1+R2/C=4,050 isdivided by 360 bits which is the unit size P is 90, the row length R2 ofthe part 2 is 360(=90×4) bits.

The part column length R1 of the part 1 is R1+R2/C-R2/4=4,050-90=3,960bits.

FIG. 225 is a diagram for describing the block interleaving of the typeB performed in the block interleaver 1022 (FIG. 217).

The block interleaver 1022 performs the block interleaving of the type Bby writing and reading the LDPC code in and from the parts 1 and 2.

That is, as shown in FIG. 225A, in the block interleaving of the type B,the writing of the code bits of the LDPC code of one codeword in thecolumns of the part 1 from the left to the right (in the row direction)for every bit group is iteratively performed.

When the writing of the code bits in the bottommost region of therightmost column (C-th column) of the columns of the part 1 is ended,the writing of the remaining code bits is performed in the rows of thepart 2 from the left to the right (in the row direction).

Thereafter, when the writing of the code bits in the rightmost row ofthe rows of the part 2 is ended, the code bits are read from the firstrows of all of C number of columns of the part 1 in the row directionfor every C=m bits, as shown in FIG. 225B.

The reading of the code bits from all of C number of columns of the part1 is sequentially performed in the lower rows, and when the reading fromthe R1 row which is the last row is ended, the code bits are read fromthe rows of the part 2 from the left to the right (in the row direction)for every C=m bits.

In this manner, the code bits read from the parts 1 and 2 for every mbits are supplied as the symbol to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8).

Specific Example of Block Interleaving of Type B

Next, the bit interleaving performed in the bit interleaver 116 havingthe block interleaver 1022 corresponding to the block interleaving ofthe type B will be described with reference to FIGS. 226 and 227.

FIG. 226 shows a case 1 where the number of bit groups is N_(g)=12 andthe number of columns is N_(c)=4 as a specific example of the blockinterleaving of the type B. In FIG. 226, each bit group is divided forevery 360 bits.

In the case 1 of the block interleaving of the type B, a column lengthN_(r1) of the part 1 is floor(N_(g)/N_(c))×360=12/4×360=3×360 bits.Since a row length N_(r2) of the part 2 isN_(g)λ360−N_(r1)λN_(c)=12×360−3×360×4=0 bits, only the storage region ofthe part 1 is used, and the storage region of the part 2 is not used.

In FIG. 226, a PIL output and a GWI output represent an input and anoutput of the group-wise interleaver 1021. That is, the group-wiseinterleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangement of bit groups 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 into the arrangement of bit groups 4, 7,9, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 5, 11, 3, and 6 according to the GW pattern of 4, 7,9, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 5, 11, 3, 6.

The block interleaver 1022 iteratively performs the writing of theoutput from the group-wise interleaver 1021 in the columns of the part 1from the left to the right (in the row direction) for every bit group.

Thus, as shown in “BLI write” of FIG. 226, the code bits of the bitgroups 4, 12, and 5 are written in the first column (leftmost column),the code bits of the bit groups 7, 8, and 11 are written in the secondcolumn, the code bits of the bit groups 9, 10 and 3 are written in thethird column, and the code bits of the bit groups 2, 1 and 6 are writtenin the fourth column (rightmost column).

Thereafter, when the writing of the code bits in the bottommost regionof the fourth column (rightmost column) of the part 1 is ended, as shownin “BLI read” of FIG. 226, the code bits are read from the first rows ofall of four columns of the part 1 in the row direction for every C=mbits. The reading of the code bits from all of four columns of the part1 is sequentially performed in the lower rows, and is performed up tothe last row.

In this manner, the code bits read from the part 1 for every m bits aresupplied as the symbol to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8). In the mapper 117,the LDPC code from the bit interleaver 116 is mapped to a signal pointof 16 (2⁴) signal points representing the symbol for every symbol.

FIG. 227 shows a case 2 where the number of bit groups is N_(g)=14 andthe number of columns is N_(c)=4 as a specific example of the blockinterleaving of the type B. In FIG. 227, each bit group is divided forevery 360 bits.

In the case 2 of the block interleaving of the type B, a column lengthN_(r1) of the part 1 is floor(N_(g)/N_(c))×360=14/4×360=3×360 bits.Since a row length N_(r2) of the part 2 isN_(g)λ360−N_(r1)λN_(c)=14×360−3×360×4=2×360 bits, the storage region ofthe part 2 is used in addition to the storage region of the part 1.

In FIG. 227, a PIL output and a GWI output represent an input and anoutput of the group-wise interleaver 1021. That is, the group-wiseinterleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangement of bit groups 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 into the arrangement of bit groups4, 7, 13, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 14, 11, 3, 6, 9, and 5 according to the GWpattern of 4, 7, 13, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 14, 11, 3, 6, 9, 5.

The block interleaver 1022 iteratively performs the writing of theoutput from the group-wise interleaver 1021 in the columns of the part 1from the left to the right (in the row direction) for every bit group.When the writing of the code bits in the bottommost region of therightmost column of the columns of the part 1 is ended, the writing ofthe remaining code bits is performed on the rows of the part 2 from theleft to the right (in the row direction).

Thus, as shown in “BLI write” of FIG. 227, in the part 1, the code bitsof the bit groups 4, 12, and 14 are written in the first column(leftmost column), the code bits of the bit groups 7, 8, and 11 arewritten in the second column, the code bits of the bit groups 13, 10,and 3 are written in the third column, and the code bits of the bitgroups 2, 1, and 6 are written in the fourth column (rightmost column).The code bits of the bit groups 9 and 5 are written in the rows of thepart 2.

Subsequently, when the writing of the code bits in the rightmost row ofthe part 2 is ended, the code bits are read from the first rows of allof four columns of the part 1 in the row direction for every C=m bits,as shown in “BLI read” of FIG. 227.

The reading of the code bits from all of four columns of the part 1 issequentially performed in the lower rows, and when the reading in thelast row is ended, the code bits are read from the rows of the part 2from the left to the right (in the row direction) for every C=m bits.Here, the code bits of the bit groups 9 and 5 written in the rows of thepart 2 are read by 4 bits in sequence from the leading bit.

In this manner, the code bits read from the parts 1 and 2 for every mbits are supplied as the symbol to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8). In themapper 117, the LDPC code from the bit interleaver 116 is mapped to asignal point of 16 (2 ⁴) signal points representing the symbol for everysymbol.

Rewriting of GW Pattern Depending on Type of Block Interleaving

The group-wise interleaver 1021 has to prepare the GW pattern for theblock interleaving of the type A and the GW pattern for the blockinterleaving of the type B depending on the type of the blockinterleaving performed in the block interleaver 1022 provided at thelatter stage.

In the block interleaving of the type A and the block interleaving ofthe type B, since the writing method and a part of the reading methodperformed on the storage regions are different, it is necessary toprovide two types of address generating circuits for each type. For thisreason, it has been requested that the block interleaving of the type Aand the block interleaving of the type B are realized by using a commonaddress generating circuit as described above.

Thus, in the group-wise interleaver 1021, it is possible to realize thecommon address generating circuit by converting the GW pattern for theblock interleaving of the type B into the GW pattern for the blockinterleaving of the type A or the GW pattern for the block interleavingof the type A into the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the typeB.

Here, the rewriting (converting) of the GW pattern performed in thegroup-wise interleaver 1021 will be described with reference to FIGS.228 and 229.

FIG. 228 shows a case 1 where the number of bit groups is N_(g)=12 andthe number of columns is N_(c)=4 as a specific conversion example of theGW pattern.

In FIG. 228, the block interleaver 1022 corresponding to the blockinterleaving of the type A is illustrated on the left side in thedrawing, and the block interleaver 1022 corresponding to the blockinterleaving of the type B is illustrated on the right side in thedrawing.

Similarly to FIGS. 222 and 226 described above, in FIG. 228, in theblock interleaving, only the storage region of the part 1 is used, andthe storage region of the part 2 is not used. Each bit group is dividedfor every 360 bits.

In FIG. 228, a PIL output and a GWI output represent an output and aninput of the group-wise interleaver 1021. As shown on the left side inthe drawing, the group-wise interleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangementof bit groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 into the numberof bit groups 4, 12, 5, 7, 8, 11, 9, 10, 3, 2, 1, and 6, and outputs theinterleaved arrangement to the block interleaver 1022 corresponding tothe block interleaving of the type A.

That is, the group-wise interleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangement ofbit groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 into thearrangement of bit groups 4, 12, 5, 7, 8, 11, 9, 10, 3, 2, 1, and 6according to the GW pattern of 4, 12, 5, 7, 8, 11, 9, 10, 3, 2, 1, 6 forthe block interleaving of the type A.

The block interleaver 1022 corresponding to the block interleaving ofthe type A performs the writing of the output from the group-wiseinterleaver 1021 in the columns of the part 1 from the top to the bottom(in the column direction) in the columns from the left to the right.

Thus, as shown in “Type ABLI write” on the left side in the drawing, thecode bits of the bit groups 4, 12, and 5 are written in the first column(leftmost column), the code bits of the bit groups 7, 8, and 11 arewritten in the second column, the code bits of the bit groups 9, 10, and3 are written in the third column, and the code bits of the bit groups2, 1, and 6 are written in the fourth column (rightmost column). Whenthe writing of the code bits in the bottommost region of the fourthcolumn of the columns of the part 1 is ended, the writing of the codebits is ended.

Meanwhile, as shown on the right side in the drawing, the group-wiseinterleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangement of bit groups 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 into the arrangement of bit groups 4, 7,9, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 5, 11, 3, and 6, and outputs the interleavedarrangement to the block interleaver 1022 corresponding to the blockinterleaving of the type B.

That is, the group-wise interleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangement ofbit groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 into thearrangement of bit groups 4, 7, 9, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 5, 11, 3, and 6according to the GW pattern of 4, 7, 9, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 5, 11, 3, 6 forthe block interleaving of the type B.

The block interleaver 1022 corresponding to the block interleaving ofthe type B iteratively performs the writing of the output from thegroup-wise interleaver 1021 in the columns of the part 1 from the leftto the right (in the row direction) for every bit group.

Thus, as shown in “Type B BLI write” on the right side in the drawing,the code bits of the bit groups 4, 12, and 5 are written in the firstcolumn (leftmost column), the code bits of the bit groups 7, 8, and 11are written in the second column, the code bits of the bit groups 9, 10,and 3 are written in the third column, and the code bits of the bitgroups 2, 1, and 6 are written in the fourth column (rightmost column).When the writing of the code bits in the bottommost region of the fourthcolumn of the columns of the part 1 is ended, the writing of the codebits is ended.

In this manner, the group-wise interleaver 1021 performs theinterleaving according to the GW pattern depending on the type of theblock interleaving, and thus, in the block interleaver 1022, the writingresults of the code bits written in the columns of the part 1 are thesame in the block interleaving of the type A and the block interleavingof the type B.

That is, in both of the block interleaving of the type A and the blockinterleaving of the type B, the code bits of the bit groups 4, 12, and 5are written in the first column, the code bits of the bit groups 7, 8,and 11 are written in the second column, the code bits of the bit groups9, 10, and 3 are written in the third column, the code bits of the bitgroups 2, 1, and 6 are written in the fourth column.

As stated above, if the writing results of the code bits written in thecolumns of the part 1 are the same, it is possible to use the writeaddress generated in any one of the address generating circuit for theblock interleaving of the type A and the address generating circuit forthe block interleaving of the type B. That is, it is possible to realizethe block interleaving of the type A and the block interleaving of thetype B by using the common address generating circuit.

Thus, in the group-wise interleaver 1021 of FIG. 228, when it is assumedthat the block interleaving of the type B is performed, the GW patternis rewritten such that the block interleaving result (the writing resultof the code bits written in the columns of the part 1) obtained when theblock interleaving of the type A is performed is the same as the blockinterleaving result obtained when the block interleaving of the type Bis performed.

For example, in the group-wise interleaver 1021 of FIG. 228, when it isassumed that the block interleaving of the type B is performed, a case1-1 where the GW pattern of 4, 7, 9, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 5, 11, 3, 6 is setas the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the type B is supposed.

In this case 1-1, when the block interleaving is performed in the blockinterleaver 1022, the group-wise interleaver 1021 rewrites the GWpattern of 4, 7, 9, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 5, 11, 3, 6 for the blockinterleaving of the type B into the GW pattern of 4, 12, 5, 7, 8, 11, 9,10, 3, 2, 1, 6 for the block interleaving of the type A. Thus, the blockinterleaving result of the type A performed by the group-wiseinterleaver 1021 is the same as the block interleaving result of thetype B.

In the group-wise interleaver 1021 of FIG. 228, when it is assumed thatthe block interleaving of the type A is performed, the GW pattern isrewritten such that the block interleaving result (writing result of thecode bits written in the columns of the part 1) obtained when the blockinterleaving of the type B is performed is the same as the blockinterleaving result obtained when the block interleaving of the type Ais performed.

For example, in the group-wise interleaver 1021 of FIG. 228, when it isassumed that the block interleaving of the type A is performed, a case1-2 where the GW pattern of 4, 12, 5, 7, 8, 11, 9, 10, 3, 2, 1, 6 is setas the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the type A is supposed.

In the case 1-2, when the block interleaving of the type B is performedin the block interleaver 1022, the group-wise interleaver 1021 rewritesthe GW pattern of 4, 12, 5, 7, 8, 11, 9, 10, 3, 2, 1, 6 for the blockinterleaving of the type A into the GW pattern of 4, 7, 9, 2, 12, 8, 10,1, 5, 11, 3, 6 for the block interleaving of the type B. Thus, the blockinterleaving result of the type B performed by the group-wiseinterleaver 1021 is the same as the block interleaving result of thetype A.

As mentioned above, it is possible to achieve the common addressgenerating circuit by converting the GW pattern for the blockinterleaving of the type B into the GW pattern for the blockinterleaving of the type A or the GW pattern for the block interleavingof the type A into the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the typeB by the group-wise interleaver 1021.

Further, since the GW pattern is merely rewritten in the group-wiseinterleaver 1021 depending on the type of the block interleaving,performance degradation due to the converting of the GW pattern does notoccur. For example, when it is assumed that the block interleaving ofthe type A is performed, since the completely same performance isobtained in the case where the block interleaving of the type A isperformed according to the GW pattern for the block interleaving of thetype A and the case where the block interleaving of the type B isperformed according to the GW pattern for the block interleaving of thetype B, the performance degradation due to the converting of the GWpattern does not occur.

Similarly to FIGS. 222 and 226 described above, in the block interleaver1022 of FIG. 228, the code bits are read from the columns of the part 1.In this manner, the code bits read from the part 1 are supplied as thesymbol to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8).

FIG. 229 shows a case 2 where the number of bit groups is N_(g)=14 andthe number of columns is N_(c)=4 as a specific conversion example of theGW pattern.

Similarly to FIG. 228 described above, in FIG. 229, the blockinterleaver 1022 corresponding to the block interleaving of the type Ais illustrated on the right side in the drawing, and the blockinterleaver 1022 corresponding to the block interleaving of the type Bis illustrated on the right side in the drawing.

Similarly to FIGS. 223 and 227 described above, in FIG. 229, in theblock interleaving, the storage region of the part 2 is used in additionto the storage region of the part 1. Each bit group is divided for every360 bits.

In FIG. 229, a PIL output and a GWI output represent an input and anoutput of the group-wise interleaver 1021. As shown on the left side inthe drawing, the group-wise interleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangementof bit groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 into thearrangement of bit groups 4, 12, 14, 7, 8, 11, 13, 10, 3, 2, 1, 6, 9,and 5, and outputs the interleaved arrangement to the block interleaver1022 corresponding to the block interleaving of the type A.

That is, the group-wise interleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangement ofbit groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 into thearrangement of bit groups 4, 12, 14, 7, 8, 11, 13, 10, 3, 2, 1, 6, 9,and 5 according to the GW pattern of 4, 12, 14, 7, 8, 11, 13, 10, 3, 2,1, 6, 9, 5 for the block interleaving of the type A.

The block interleaver 1022 corresponding to the block interleaving ofthe type A performs the writing of the output from the group-wiseinterleaver 1021 in the columns of the part 1 from the top to the bottom(in the column direction) in the columns from the left to the right.When the writing of the code bits in the bottommost region of therightmost column of the columns of the part 1 is ended, the writing ofthe remaining code bits in the columns of the part 2 from the top to thebottom (in the column direction) is performed in the columns from theleft to the right.

Thus, as shown in “Type A BLI write” on the left side in the drawing,the code bits of the bit groups 4, 12, and 14 are written in the firstcolumn (leftmost column), the code bits of the bit groups 7, 8 and 11are written in the second column, the code bits of the bit groups 13,10, and 3 are written in the third column, and the code bits of the bitgroups 2, 1, and 6 are written in the fourth column (rightmost column).

In the part 2, the coding bits of the bit group 9-1 are written in thefirst column (leftmost column), the coding bits of the bit group 9-2 arewritten in the second column, the coding bits of the bit group 5-1 arewritten in the third column, and the coding bits of the bit group 5-2are written in the fourth column (rightmost column).

Here, the bit group 9-1 and the bit group 9-2 are respectively 180 bits,and the bit group 9 is formed by these groups. Further, the bit group5-1 and the bit group 5-2 are respectively 180 bits, and the bit group 5is formed by these groups. When the writing of the code bits in thebottommost region of the fourth column of the columns of the part 2 isended, the writing of the code bits is ended.

Meanwhile, as shown on the right side in the drawing, the group-wiseinterleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangement of bit groups 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 into the arrangement of bit groups4, 7, 13, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 14, 11, 3, 6, 9, and 5, and outputs theinterleaved arrangement to the block interleaver 1022 corresponding tothe block interleaving of the type B.

That is, the group-wise interleaver 1021 interleaves the arrangement ofbit groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 into thearrangement of bit groups 4, 7, 13, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 14, 11, 3, 6, 9,and 5 according to the GW pattern of 4, 7, 13, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 14, 11,3, 6, 9, 5 for the block interleaving of the type B.

The block interleaver 1022 corresponding to the block interleaving ofthe type B iteratively performs the writing of the output from thegroup-wise interleaver 1021 in the columns of the part 1 from the leftto the right (in the row direction) for every bit group. When thewriting of the code bits in the bottommost region of the rightmostcolumn of the columns of the part 1 is ended, the writing of theremaining code bits in the rows of the part 2 from the left to the right(in the row direction) is performed.

Thus, as shown in “Type B BLI write” on the right side in the drawing,the code bits of the bit groups 4, 12, and 14 are written in the firstcolumn (leftmost column), the code bits of the bit groups 7, 8 and 11are written in the second column, the code bits of the bit groups 13,10, and 3 are written in the third column, and the code bits of the bitgroups 2, 1, and 6 are written in the fourth column (rightmost column).The code bits of the bit groups 9, and 5 are written in the rows of thepart 2. When the writing of the code bits in the rightmost row of therows of the part 2 is ended, the writing of the code bits is ended.

In this manner, the group-wise interleaver 1021 performs theinterleaving according to the GW pattern depending on the type of theblock interleaving, and thus, the writing results of the code bitswritten in the columns of the part 1 are the same in the blockinterleaving of the type A and the block interleaving of the type B inthe block interleaver 1022.

That is, in both of the block interleaving of the type A and the blockinterleaving of the type B, the code bits of the bit groups 4, 12, and14 are written in the first column, the code bits of the bit groups 7,8, and 11 are written in the second column, the code bits of the bitgroups 13, 10, and 3 are written in the third column, and the code bitsof the bit groups 2, 1, and 6 are written in the fourth column.

Similarly to FIG. 228 described above, if the writing results of thecode bits written in the columns of the part 1 are the same, it ispossible to realize the block interleaving of the type A and the blockinterleaving of the type B by using the common address generatingcircuit.

Thus, in the group-wise interleaver 1021 of FIG. 229, when it is assumedthat the block interleaving of the type B is performed, the GW patternis rewritten such that the block interleaving result (writing result ofthe code bits written in the columns of the part 1) obtained when theblock interleaving of the type A is performed is the same as the blockinterleaving result obtained when the block interleaving of the type Bis performed.

For example, in the group-wise interleaver 1021 of FIG. 229, when it isassumed that the block interleaving of the type B is performed, a case2-1 where the GW pattern of 4, 7, 13, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 14, 11, 3, 6, 9,5 is set as the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the type B issupposed.

In the case 2-1, when the block interleaving of the type A is performedin the block interleaver 1022, the group-wise interleaver 1021 rewritesthe GW pattern of 4, 7, 13, 2, 12, 8, 10, 1, 14, 11, 3, 6, 9, 5 for theblock interleaving of the type B into the GW pattern of 4, 12, 14, 7, 8,11, 13, 10, 3, 2, 1, 6, 9, 5 for the block interleaving of the type A.Thus, the block interleaving result of the type A performed by thegroup-wise interleaver 1021 is the same as the block interleaving resultof the type B.

In the group-wise interleaver 1021 of FIG. 229, when it is assumed thatthe block interleaving of the type A is performed, the GW pattern isrewritten such that the block interleaving result (writing result of thecode bits written in the columns of the part 1) obtained when the blockinterleaving of the type B is performed is the same as the blockinterleaving result obtained when the block interleaving of the type Ais performed.

For example, in the group-wise interleaver 1021 of FIG. 229, when it isassumed that the block interleaving of the type A is performed, a case2-2 where the GW pattern of 4, 12, 14, 7, 8, 11, 13, 10, 3, 2, 1, 6, 9,5 is set as the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the type A issupposed.

In this case 2-2, when the block interleaving of the type B is performedin the block interleaver 1022, the group-wise interleaver 1021 rewritesthe GW pattern of 4, 12, 14, 7, 8, 11, 13, 10, 3, 2, 1, 6, 9, 5 for theblock interleaving of the type A into the GW pattern of 4, 7, 13, 2, 12,8, 10, 1, 14, 11, 3, 6, 9, 5 for the block interleaving of the type B.Thus, the block interleaving result of the type B performed by thegroup-wise interleaver 1021 is the same as the block interleaving resultof the type A.

In this manner, it is possible to realize the common address generatingcircuit of the columns of the part 1 by converting the GW pattern forthe block interleaving of the type B into the GW pattern for the blockinterleaving of the type A or the GW pattern for the block interleavingof the type A into the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the typeB by the group-wise interleaver 1021.

Moreover, since the GW pattern is merely rewritten depending on the typeof the block interleaving in the group-wise interleaver 1021,performance degradation due to the GW pattern does not occur. Forexample, when it is assumed that the block interleaving of the type B isperformed, since the completely same performance is obtained in the casewhere the block interleaving of the type B is performed according to theGW pattern for the block interleaving of the type B and the case wherethe block interleaving of the type A is performed according to the GWpattern for the block interleaving of the rewritten type A, theperformance degradation due to the converting of the GW pattern does notoccur.

Here, since the write addresses of the code bits are different in theblock interleaving of the type A and the block interleaving of the typeB for (the storage region) of the part 2, it is necessary to provide theaddress generating circuit for each type.

Similarly to FIGS. 223 and 227 described above, in the block interleaver1022 of FIG. 229, the code bits are read from (the storage regions of)the part 1 and the part 2. In this manner, the code bits read from (thestorage regions of) the part 1 and the part 2 are supplied as the symbolto the mapper 117 (FIG. 8).

Example of GW Pattern Set to MODCOD (LDPC Code of 64 k Bits)

FIG. 230 shows an example of the GW pattern set to the MODCOD which isthe combination of the LDPC code of 64 k bits and the modulation scheme.

In FIG. 230, a case where “A”s are described in MODCODs which arecombinations of code rates (CR) of 12 types of LDPC codes and 6 types ofmodulation schemes (MODs) means that it is assumed that the blockinterleaving of the type A is performed, and the GW patterns for theblock interleaving of the type A are set to the MODCODs. A case where“B”s are described in MODCODS means that it is assumed that the blockinterleaving of the type B is performed, and the GW patterns for theblock interleaving of the type B are set to the MODCODs.

In FIG. 230, in the MODCOD in which the modulation scheme is QPSK (MOD2) and the code rate r of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is 2/15, it isassumed that the block interleaving of the type A is performed.Similarly, in the MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is QPSK (MOD 2)and the code rates r of the LDPC code of 64 k bits are 3/15, 4/15, 5/15,6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15, it is assumedthat the block interleaving of the type A is performed.

In FIG. 230, in the MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is 16-QAM(MOD 4) and the code rates r of the LDPC code of 64 k bits are 2/15,3/15, 4/15, 6/15, 7/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15, it is assumedthat the block interleaving of the type A is performed. Meanwhile, inthe MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is 16-QAM (MOD 4) and thecode rates r of the LDPC code of 64 k bits are 5/15, 8/15, and 9/15, itis assumed that the block interleaving of the type B is performed.

In FIG. 230, in the MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is 64-QAM(MOD 6) and the code rates r of the LDPC code of 64 k bits are 2/15,3/15, 4/15, 5/15, 6/15, 8/15, 11/15, and 12/15, it is assumed that theblock interleaving of the type A is performed. Meanwhile, in the MODCODsin which the modulation scheme is 64-QAM (MOD 6) and the code rates r ofthe LDPC code of 64 k bits are 7/15, 9/15, 10/15, and 13/15, it isassumed that the block interleaving of the type B is performed.

In FIG. 230, in the MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is 256-QAM(MOD 8) and the code rates r of the LDPC code of 64 k bits are 2/15,3/15, 4/15, 9/15, and 12/15, it is assumed that the block interleavingof the type A is performed. Meanwhile, in the MODCODs in which themodulation scheme is 256-QAM (MOD 8) and the code rates r of the LDPCcode of 64 k bits are 5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 10/15, 11/15, and 13/15,it is assumed that the block interleaving of the type B is performed.

In FIG. 230, in the MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM(MOD 10) and the code rates r of the LDPC code of 64 k bits are 2/15,3/15, 4/15, 6/15, 8/15, 12/15, and 13/15, it is assumed that the blockinterleaving of the type A is performed. Meanwhile, in the MODCODs inwhich the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM (MOD 10) and the code rates r ofthe LDPC code of 64 k bits are 5/15, 7/15, 9/15, 10/15, and 11/15, it isassumed that the block interleaving of the type B is performed.

In FIG. 230, in the MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM(MOD 12) and the code rates r of the LDPC code of 64 k bits are 2/15,3/15, 4/15, 5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and13/15, it is assumed that the block interleaving of the type A isperformed.

As stated above, the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the type Aor the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the type B are set foreach MODCOD which is the combination of the LDPC code of 64 k bits andthe modulation scheme depending on the assumed type.

As described above, in the group-wise interleaver 1021, when it isassumed that the block interleaving of the type B is performed, the GWpattern for the block interleaving of the type B is rewritten into theGW pattern for the block interleaving of the type A such that the blockinterleaving result obtained when the block interleaving of the type Ais performed is the same as the block interleaving result obtained whenthe block interleaving of the type B is performed.

Further, in the group-wise interleaver 1021, when it is assumed that theblock interleaving of the type A is performed, the GW pattern for theblock interleaving of the type A is rewritten into the GW pattern forthe block interleaving of the type B such that the block interleavingresult obtained when the block interleaving of the type B is performedis the same as the block interleaving result obtained when the blockinterleaving of the type A is performed.

Hereinafter, as a specific example of the GW pattern set to each MODCODshown in FIG. 230, the GW pattern (hereinafter, referred to as anoriginal GW pattern) for the block interleaving of the assumed type andthe GW pattern rewritten (hereinafter, referred to as a convertedpattern) in order to perform the block interleaving of the typedifferent from the assumed type will be described. It is possible toapply the uniform constellation (UC) or the non-uniform constellation(NUC) to the QAM constellation such as 16-QAM.

In each MODCOD, when the GW pattern for the block interleaving of thetype A is set as the original GW pattern (A), the GW pattern for theblock interleaving of the type B is set as the converted GW pattern (B).By contrast, when the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the typeB is set as the original GW pattern (B), the GW pattern for the blockinterleaving of the type A is set as the converted GW pattern (A).

FIG. 231 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having a code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 2/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 231, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 70, 149, 136, 153, 104, 110, 134, 61, 129,126, 58, 150, 177, 168, 78, 71, 120, 60, 155, 175, 9, 161, 103, 123, 91,173, 57, 106, 143, 151, 89, 86, 35, 77, 133, 31, 7, 23, 51, 5, 121, 83,64, 176, 119, 98, 49, 130, 128, 79, 162, 32, 172, 87, 131, 45, 114, 93,96, 39, 68, 105, 85, 109, 13, 33, 145, 18, 12, 54, 111, 14, 156, 8, 16,73, 2, 84, 47, 42, 101, 63, 88, 25, 52, 170, 24, 69, 142, 178, 20, 65,97, 66, 80, 11, 59, 19, 115, 154, 26, 147, 28, 50, 160, 102, 55, 139,125, 116, 138, 167, 53, 169, 165, 99, 159, 148, 179, 0, 146, 90, 6, 100,74, 117, 48, 75, 135, 41, 137, 76, 92, 164, 113, 152, 72, 36, 3, 163,15, 46, 21, 44, 108, 34, 56, 140, 127, 158, 94, 67, 122, 1, 27, 171, 30,157, 112, 81, 118, 43, 29, 124, 22, 62, 37, 40, 4, 107, 166, 82, 95, 10,144, 141, 132, 174, 38, and 17.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 231, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 70, 20, 149, 65, 136, 97, 153, 66, 104,80, 110, 11, 134, 59, 61, 19, 129, 115, 126, 154, 58, 26, 150, 147, 177,28, 168, 50, 78, 160, 71, 102, 120, 55, 60, 139, 155, 125, 175, 116, 9,138, 161, 167, 103, 53, 123, 169, 91, 165, 173, 99, 57, 159, 106, 148,143, 179, 151, 0, 89, 146, 86, 90, 35, 6, 77, 100, 133, 74, 31, 117, 7,48, 23, 75, 51, 135, 5, 41, 121, 137, 83, 76, 64, 92, 176, 164, 119,113, 98, 152, 49, 72, 130, 36, 128, 3, 79, 163, 162, 15, 32, 46, 172,21, 87, 44, 131, 108, 45, 34, 114, 56, 93, 140, 96, 127, 39, 158, 68,94, 105, 67, 85, 122, 109, 1, 13, 27, 33, 171, 145, 30, 18, 157, 12,112, 54, 81, 111, 118, 14, 43, 156, 29, 8, 124, 16, 22, 73, 62, 2, 37,84, 40, 47, 4, 42, 107, 101, 166, 63, 82, 88, 95, 25, 10, 52, 144, 170,141, 24, 132, 69, 174, 142, 38, 178, and 17.

FIG. 232 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 3/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 232, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 75, 170, 132, 174, 7, 111, 30, 4, 49, 133,50, 160, 92, 106, 27, 126, 116, 178, 41, 166, 88, 84, 80, 153, 103, 51,58, 107, 167, 39, 108, 24, 145, 96, 74, 65, 8, 40, 76, 140, 44, 68, 125,119, 82, 53, 152, 102, 38, 28, 86, 162, 171, 61, 93, 147, 117, 32, 150,26, 59, 3, 148, 173, 141, 130, 154, 97, 33, 172, 115, 118, 127, 6, 16,0, 143, 9, 100, 67, 98, 110, 2, 169, 47, 83, 164, 155, 123, 159, 42,105, 12, 158, 81, 20, 66, 57, 121, 25, 1, 90, 175, 35, 60, 79, 87, 135,10, 139, 156, 177, 77, 89, 73, 113, 52, 109, 134, 36, 176, 54, 69, 146,31, 15, 71, 18, 95, 124, 85, 14, 78, 129, 161, 19, 72, 13, 122, 21, 63,137, 120, 144, 91, 157, 48, 34, 46, 22, 29, 104, 45, 56, 151, 62, 43,94, 163, 99, 64, 138, 101, 23, 11, 17, 136, 128, 114, 112, 165, 5, 142,179, 37, 70, 131, 55, 168, and 149.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 232, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 75, 42, 170, 105, 132, 12, 174, 158, 7,81, 111, 20, 30, 66, 4, 57, 49, 121, 133, 25, 50, 1, 160, 90, 92, 175,106, 35, 27, 60, 126, 79, 116, 87, 178, 135, 41, 10, 166, 139, 88, 156,84, 177, 80, 77, 153, 89, 103, 73, 51, 113, 58, 52, 107, 109, 167, 134,39, 36, 108, 176, 24, 54, 145, 69, 96, 146, 74, 31, 65, 15, 8, 71, 40,18, 76, 95, 140, 124, 44, 85, 68, 14, 125, 78, 119, 129, 82, 161, 53,19, 152, 72, 102, 13, 38, 122, 28, 21, 86, 63, 162, 137, 171, 120, 61,144, 93, 91, 147, 157, 117, 48, 32, 34, 150, 46, 26, 22, 59, 29, 3, 104,148, 45, 173, 56, 141, 151, 130, 62, 154, 43, 97, 94, 33, 163, 172, 99,115, 64, 118, 138, 127, 101, 6, 23, 16, 11, 0, 17, 143, 136, 9, 128,100, 114, 67, 112, 98, 165, 110, 5, 2, 142, 169, 179, 47, 37, 83, 70,164, 131, 155, 55, 123, 168, 159, and 149.

FIG. 233 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 4/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 233, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 141, 86, 22, 20, 176, 21, 37, 82, 6, 122,130, 40, 62, 44, 24, 117, 8, 145, 36, 79, 172, 149, 127, 163, 9, 160,73, 100, 16, 153, 124, 110, 49, 154, 152, 4, 168, 54, 177, 158, 113, 57,2, 102, 161, 147, 18, 103, 1, 41, 104, 144, 39, 105, 131, 77, 69, 108,159, 61, 45, 156, 0, 83, 157, 119, 112, 118, 92, 109, 75, 67, 142, 96,51, 139, 31, 166, 179, 89, 167, 23, 34, 60, 93, 165, 128, 90, 19, 33,70, 173, 174, 129, 55, 98, 88, 97, 146, 123, 84, 111, 132, 71, 140, 136,10, 115, 63, 46, 42, 50, 138, 81, 59, 53, 15, 52, 72, 164, 150, 29, 17,91, 101, 14, 38, 35, 66, 64, 7, 125, 151, 56, 126, 171, 68, 121, 28, 65,106, 78, 47, 143, 12, 169, 120, 27, 74, 48, 133, 43, 116, 137, 94, 3,25, 134, 13, 107, 162, 32, 99, 85, 175, 80, 170, 5, 135, 178, 11, 26,76, 95, 87, 155, 58, 30, 148, and 114.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 233, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 141, 70, 86, 173, 22, 174, 20, 129, 176,55, 21, 98, 37, 88, 82, 97, 6, 146, 122, 123, 130, 84, 40, 111, 62, 132,44, 71, 24, 140, 117, 136, 8, 10, 145, 115, 36, 63, 79, 46, 172, 42,149, 50, 127, 138, 163, 81, 9, 59, 160, 53, 73, 15, 100, 52, 16, 72,153, 164, 124, 150, 110, 29, 49, 17, 154, 91, 152, 101, 4, 14, 168, 38,54, 35, 177, 66, 158, 64, 113, 7, 57, 125, 2, 151, 102, 56, 161, 126,147, 171, 18, 68, 103, 121, 1, 28, 41, 65, 104, 106, 144, 78, 39, 47,105, 143, 131, 12, 77, 169, 69, 120, 108, 27, 159, 74, 61, 48, 45, 133,156, 43, 0, 116, 83, 137, 157, 94, 119, 3, 112, 25, 118, 134, 92, 13,109, 107, 75, 162, 67, 32, 142, 99, 96, 85, 51, 175, 139, 80, 31, 170,166, 5, 179, 135, 89, 178, 167, 11, 23, 26, 34, 76, 60, 95, 93, 87, 165,155, 128, 58, 90, 30, 19, 148, 33, and 114.

FIG. 234 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 5/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 234, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 39, 47, 96, 176, 33, 75, 165, 38, 27, 58,90, 76, 17, 46, 10, 91, 133, 69, 171, 32, 117, 78, 13, 146, 101, 36, 0,138, 25, 77, 122, 49, 14, 125, 140, 93, 130, 2, 104, 102, 128, 4, 111,151, 84, 167, 35, 127, 156, 55, 82, 85, 66, 114, 8, 147, 115, 113, 5,31, 100, 106, 48, 52, 67, 107, 18, 126, 112, 50, 9, 143, 28, 160, 71,79, 43, 98, 86, 94, 64, 3, 166, 105, 103, 118, 63, 51, 139, 172, 141,175, 56, 74, 95, 29, 45, 129, 120, 168, 92, 150, 7, 162, 153, 137, 108,159, 157, 173, 23, 89, 132, 57, 37, 70, 134, 40, 21, 149, 80, 1, 121,59, 110, 142, 152, 15, 154, 145, 12, 170, 54, 155, 99, 22, 123, 72, 177,131, 116, 44, 158, 73, 11, 65, 164, 119, 174, 34, 83, 53, 24, 42, 60,26, 161, 68, 178, 41, 148, 109, 87, 144, 135, 20, 62, 81, 169, 124, 6,19, 30, 163, 61, 179, 136, 97, 16, and 88.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 234, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 39, 141, 47, 175, 96, 56, 176, 74, 33, 95,75, 29, 165, 45, 38, 129, 27, 120, 58, 168, 90, 92, 76, 150, 17, 7, 46,162, 10, 153, 91, 137, 133, 108, 69, 159, 171, 157, 32, 173, 117, 23,78, 89, 13, 132, 146, 57, 101, 37, 36, 70, 0, 134, 138, 40, 25, 21, 77,149, 122, 80, 49, 1, 14, 121, 125, 59, 140, 110, 93, 142, 130, 152, 2,15, 104, 154, 102, 145, 128, 12, 4, 170, 111, 54, 151, 155, 84, 99, 167,22, 35, 123, 127, 72, 156, 177, 55, 131, 82, 116, 85, 44, 66, 158, 114,73, 8, 11, 147, 65, 115, 164, 113, 119, 5, 174, 31, 34, 100, 83, 106,53, 48, 24, 52, 42, 67, 60, 107, 26, 18, 161, 126, 68, 112, 178, 50, 41,9, 148, 143, 109, 28, 87, 160, 144, 71, 135, 79, 20, 43, 62, 98, 81, 86,169, 94, 124, 64, 6, 3, 19, 166, 30, 105, 163, 103, 61, 118, 179, 63,136, 51, 97, 139, 16, 172, and 88.

FIG. 235 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 6/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 235, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 14, 19, 21, 2, 11, 22, 9, 8, 7, 16, 3,26, 24, 27, 80, 100, 121, 107, 31, 36, 42, 46, 49, 75, 93, 127, 95, 119,73, 61, 63, 117, 89, 99, 129, 52, 111, 124, 48, 122, 82, 106, 91, 92,71, 103, 102, 81, 113, 101, 97, 33, 115, 59, 112, 90, 51, 126, 85, 123,40, 83, 53, 69, 70, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150,152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 4,5, 10, 12, 20, 6, 18, 13, 17, 15, 1, 29, 28, 23, 25, 67, 116, 66, 104,44, 50, 47, 84, 76, 65, 130, 56, 128, 77, 39, 94, 87, 120, 62, 88, 74,35, 110, 131, 98, 60, 37, 45, 78, 125, 41, 34, 118, 38, 72, 108, 58, 43,109, 57, 105, 68, 86, 79, 96, 32, 114, 64, 55, 30, 54, 133, 135, 137,139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165,167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 235, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 4, 14, 5, 19, 10, 21, 12, 2, 20, 11, 6,22, 18, 9, 13, 8, 17, 7, 15, 16, 1, 3, 29, 26, 28, 24, 23, 27, 25, 80,67, 100, 116, 121, 66, 107, 104, 31, 44, 36, 50, 42, 47, 46, 84, 49, 76,75, 65, 93, 130, 127, 56, 95, 128, 119, 77, 73, 39, 61, 94, 63, 87, 117,120, 89, 62, 99, 88, 129, 74, 52, 35, 111, 110, 124, 131, 48, 98, 122,60, 82, 37, 106, 45, 91, 78, 92, 125, 71, 41, 103, 34, 102, 118, 81, 38,113, 72, 101, 108, 97, 58, 33, 43, 115, 109, 59, 57, 112, 105, 90, 68,51, 86, 126, 79, 85, 96, 123, 32, 40, 114, 83, 64, 53, 55, 69, 30, 70,54, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144,145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158,159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172,173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 236 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 7/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 236, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 152, 172, 113, 167, 100, 163, 159, 144,114, 47, 161, 125, 99, 89, 179, 123, 149, 177, 1, 132, 37, 26, 16, 57,166, 81, 133, 112, 33, 151, 117, 83, 52, 178, 85, 124, 143, 28, 59, 130,31, 157, 170, 44, 61, 102, 155, 111, 153, 55, 54, 176, 17, 68, 169, 20,104, 38, 147, 7, 174, 6, 90, 15, 56, 120, 13, 34, 48, 122, 110, 154, 76,64, 75, 84, 162, 77, 103, 156, 128, 150, 87, 27, 42, 3, 23, 96, 171,145, 91, 24, 78, 5, 69, 175, 8, 29, 106, 137, 131, 43, 93, 160, 108,164, 12, 140, 71, 63, 141, 109, 129, 82, 80, 173, 105, 9, 66, 65, 92,32, 41, 72, 74, 4, 36, 94, 67, 158, 10, 88, 142, 45, 126, 2, 86, 118,73, 79, 121, 148, 95, 70, 51, 53, 21, 115, 135, 25, 168, 11, 136, 18,138, 134, 119, 146, 0, 97, 22, 165, 40, 19, 60, 46, 14, 49, 139, 58,101, 39, 116, 127, 30, 98, 50, 107, 35, and 62.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 236, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 152, 91, 172, 24, 113, 78, 167, 5, 100,69, 163, 175, 159, 8, 144, 29, 114, 106, 47, 137, 161, 131, 125, 43, 99,93, 89, 160, 179, 108, 123, 164, 149, 12, 177, 140, 1, 71, 132, 63, 37,141, 26, 109, 16, 129, 57, 82, 166, 80, 81, 173, 133, 105, 112, 9, 33,66, 151, 65, 117, 92, 83, 32, 52, 41, 178, 72, 85, 74, 124, 4, 143, 36,28, 94, 59, 67, 130, 158, 31, 10, 157, 88, 170, 142, 44, 45, 61, 126,102, 2, 155, 86, 111, 118, 153, 73, 55, 79, 54, 121, 176, 148, 17, 95,68, 70, 169, 51, 20, 53, 104, 21, 38, 115, 147, 135, 7, 25, 174, 168, 6,11, 90, 136, 15, 18, 56, 138, 120, 134, 13, 119, 34, 146, 48, 0, 122,97, 110, 22, 154, 165, 76, 40, 64, 19, 75, 60, 84, 46, 162, 14, 77, 49,103, 139, 156, 58, 128, 101, 150, 39, 87, 116, 27, 127, 42, 30, 3, 98,23, 50, 96, 107, 171, 35, 145, and 62.

FIG. 237 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 8/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 237, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58,60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94,96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124,126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152,154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 1, 3,5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41,43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77,79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109,111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137,139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165,167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 237, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66,67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101,102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115,116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129,130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143,144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157,158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171,172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 238 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 9/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 238, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58,60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94,96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124,126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152,154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 1, 3,5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41,43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77,79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109,111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137,139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165,167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 238, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66,67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101,102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115,116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129,130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143,144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157,158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171,172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 239 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 10/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 239, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58,60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94,96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124,126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152,154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 1, 3,5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41,43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77,79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109,111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137,139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165,167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 239, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66,67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101,102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115,116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129,130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143,144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157,158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171,172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 240 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 11/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 240, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 14, 19, 21, 2, 11, 22, 9, 8, 7, 16, 3,26, 24, 27, 80, 100, 121, 107, 31, 36, 42, 46, 49, 75, 93, 127, 95, 119,73, 61, 63, 117, 89, 99, 129, 52, 111, 124, 48, 122, 82, 106, 91, 92,71, 103, 102, 81, 113, 101, 97, 33, 115, 59, 112, 90, 51, 126, 85, 123,40, 83, 53, 69, 70, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150,152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 4,5, 10, 12, 20, 6, 18, 13, 17, 15, 1, 29, 28, 23, 25, 67, 116, 66, 104,44, 50, 47, 84, 76, 65, 130, 56, 128, 77, 39, 94, 87, 120, 62, 88, 74,35, 110, 131, 98, 60, 37, 45, 78, 125, 41, 34, 118, 38, 72, 108, 58, 43,109, 57, 105, 68, 86, 79, 96, 32, 114, 64, 55, 30, 54, 133, 135, 137,139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165,167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 240, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 4, 14, 5, 19, 10, 21, 12, 2, 20, 11, 6,22, 18, 9, 13, 8, 17, 7, 15, 16, 1, 3, 29, 26, 28, 24, 23, 27, 25, 80,67, 100, 116, 121, 66, 107, 104, 31, 44, 36, 50, 42, 47, 46, 84, 49, 76,75, 65, 93, 130, 127, 56, 95, 128, 119, 77, 73, 39, 61, 94, 63, 87, 117,120, 89, 62, 99, 88, 129, 74, 52, 35, 111, 110, 124, 131, 48, 98, 122,60, 82, 37, 106, 45, 91, 78, 92, 125, 71, 41, 103, 34, 102, 118, 81, 38,113, 72, 101, 108, 97, 58, 33, 43, 115, 109, 59, 57, 112, 105, 90, 68,51, 86, 126, 79, 85, 96, 123, 32, 40, 114, 83, 64, 53, 55, 69, 30, 70,54, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144,145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158,159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172,173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 241 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 12/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 241, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58,60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94,96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124,126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152,154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 1, 3,5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41,43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77,79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109,111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137,139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165,167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 241, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66,67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101,102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115,116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129,130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143,144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157,158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171,172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 242 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 13/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 242, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58,60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94,96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124,126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152,154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 1, 3,5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41,43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77,79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109,111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137,139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165,167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 242, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66,67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101,102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115,116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129,130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143,144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157,158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171,172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 243 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 2/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 243, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 5, 58, 29, 154, 125, 34, 0, 169, 80, 59,13, 42, 77, 167, 32, 87, 24, 92, 124, 143, 114, 120, 166, 138, 64, 136,149, 57, 18, 101, 119, 35, 33, 113, 75, 108, 104, 3, 27, 39, 172, 159,129, 62, 146, 142, 19, 147, 111, 70, 74, 79, 10, 132, 1, 161, 155, 90,15, 133, 47, 112, 84, 28, 160, 117, 150, 49, 7, 81, 44, 63, 118, 4, 158,148, 82, 69, 36, 162, 86, 71, 22, 26, 61, 40, 126, 170, 177, 23, 91, 68,56, 110, 21, 93, 107, 85, 20, 128, 109, 66, 83, 12, 179, 141, 97, 78,157, 72, 130, 99, 165, 45, 11, 152, 168, 14, 16, 2, 137, 140, 121, 173,50, 55, 94, 144, 73, 51, 98, 174, 178, 17, 100, 9, 122, 54, 38, 156,131, 127, 164, 102, 116, 176, 30, 37, 139, 95, 43, 135, 53, 89, 106,171, 76, 175, 153, 96, 151, 115, 52, 6, 123, 134, 31, 103, 163, 65, 105,48, 25, 8, 60, 67, 88, 46, 41, and 145.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 243, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 5, 142, 91, 9, 58, 19, 68, 122, 29, 147,56, 54, 154, 111, 110, 38, 125, 70, 21, 156, 34, 74, 93, 131, 0, 79,107, 127, 169, 10, 85, 164, 80, 132, 20, 102, 59, 1, 128, 116, 13, 161,109, 176, 42, 155, 66, 30, 77, 90, 83, 37, 167, 15, 12, 139, 32, 133,179, 95, 87, 47, 141, 43, 24, 112, 97, 135, 92, 84, 78, 53, 124, 28,157, 89, 143, 160, 72, 106, 114, 117, 130, 171, 120, 150, 99, 76, 166,49, 165, 175, 138, 7, 45, 153, 64, 81, 11, 96, 136, 44, 152, 151, 149,63, 168, 115, 57, 118, 14, 52, 18, 4, 16, 6, 101, 158, 2, 123, 119, 148,137, 134, 35, 82, 140, 31, 33, 69, 121, 103, 113, 36, 173, 163, 75, 162,50, 65, 108, 86, 55, 105, 104, 71, 94, 48, 3, 22, 144, 25, 27, 26, 73,8, 39, 61, 51, 60, 172, 40, 98, 67, 159, 126, 174, 88, 129, 170, 178,46, 62, 177, 17, 41, 146, 23, 100, and 145.

FIG. 244 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 3/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 244, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 52, 92, 175, 26, 45, 81, 117, 74, 119,147, 120, 135, 144, 87, 3, 51, 20, 170, 143, 125, 15, 39, 5, 174, 79,16, 176, 44, 19, 69, 11, 111, 121, 37, 160, 88, 50, 76, 129, 138, 157,86, 113, 164, 142, 98, 9, 93, 166, 78, 73, 167, 168, 40, 131, 27, 89,156, 177, 171, 116, 152, 0, 127, 36, 8, 153, 59, 75, 13, 105, 55, 122,132, 172, 2, 58, 126, 162, 30, 77, 158, 17, 96, 100, 42, 63, 134, 154,6, 90, 128, 83, 60, 146, 124, 178, 99, 123, 108, 133, 159, 151, 145, 61,53, 68, 31, 41, 94, 35, 21, 49, 82, 80, 4, 155, 7, 57, 95, 62, 56, 65,140, 163, 148, 23, 161, 169, 47, 67, 139, 72, 43, 110, 46, 150, 109,115, 32, 14, 179, 85, 165, 112, 25, 64, 173, 10, 102, 114, 71, 66, 84,24, 141, 29, 104, 107, 54, 12, 91, 1, 118, 136, 18, 101, 149, 130, 103,106, 38, 70, 48, 28, 137, 97, 34, 22, and 33.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 244, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 52, 98, 90, 46, 92, 9, 128, 150, 175, 93,83, 109, 26, 166, 60, 115, 45, 78, 146, 32, 81, 73, 124, 14, 117, 167,178, 179, 74, 168, 99, 85, 119, 40, 123, 165, 147, 131, 108, 112, 120,27, 133, 25, 135, 89, 159, 64, 144, 156, 151, 173, 87, 177, 145, 10, 3,171, 61, 102, 51, 116, 53, 114, 20, 152, 68, 71, 170, 0, 31, 66, 143,127, 41, 84, 125, 36, 94, 24, 15, 8, 35, 141, 39, 153, 21, 29, 5, 59,49, 104, 174, 75, 82, 107, 79, 13, 80, 54, 16, 105, 4, 12, 176, 55, 155,91, 44, 122, 7, 1, 19, 132, 57, 118, 69, 172, 95, 136, 11, 2, 62, 18,111, 58, 56, 101, 121, 126, 65, 149, 37, 162, 140, 130, 160, 30, 163,103, 88, 77, 148, 106, 50, 158, 23, 38, 76, 17, 161, 70, 129, 96, 169,48, 138, 100, 47, 28, 157, 42, 67, 137, 86, 63, 139, 97, 113, 134, 72,34, 164, 154, 43, 22, 142, 6, 110, and 33.

FIG. 245 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 4/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 245, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 165, 8, 136, 2, 58, 30, 127, 64, 38, 164,123, 45, 78, 17, 47, 105, 159, 134, 124, 147, 148, 109, 67, 98, 157, 57,156, 170, 46, 12, 172, 29, 9, 3, 144, 97, 83, 151, 26, 52, 10, 39, 50,104, 92, 163, 72, 125, 36, 14, 55, 48, 1, 149, 33, 110, 6, 130, 140, 89,77, 22, 171, 139, 112, 113, 152, 16, 7, 85, 11, 28, 153, 73, 62, 44,135, 116, 4, 61, 117, 53, 111, 178, 94, 81, 68, 114, 173, 75, 101, 88,65, 99, 126, 141, 43, 15, 18, 90, 35, 24, 142, 25, 120, 19, 154, 0, 174,93, 167, 150, 107, 86, 129, 175, 87, 21, 66, 106, 82, 179, 118, 41, 95,145, 37, 23, 168, 166, 49, 103, 108, 56, 91, 69, 128, 121, 96, 133, 100,161, 143, 119, 102, 59, 20, 40, 70, 79, 80, 51, 13, 177, 131, 132, 176,155, 31, 63, 5, 162, 76, 42, 160, 115, 71, 158, 54, 137, 146, 32, 169,122, 138, 84, 74, 60, 34, and 27.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 245, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 165, 163, 101, 69, 8, 72, 88, 128, 136,125, 65, 121, 2, 36, 99, 96, 58, 14, 126, 133, 30, 55, 141, 100, 127,48, 43, 161, 64, 1, 15, 143, 38, 149, 18, 119, 164, 33, 90, 102, 123,110, 35, 59, 45, 6, 24, 20, 78, 130, 142, 40, 17, 140, 25, 70, 47, 89,120, 79, 105, 77, 19, 80, 159, 22, 154, 51, 134, 171, 0, 13, 124, 139,174, 177, 147, 112, 93, 131, 148, 113, 167, 132, 109, 152, 150, 176, 67,16, 107, 155, 98, 7, 86, 31, 157, 85, 129, 63, 57, 11, 175, 5, 156, 28,87, 162, 170, 153, 21, 76, 46, 73, 66, 42, 12, 62, 106, 160, 172, 44,82, 115, 29, 135, 179, 71, 9, 116, 118, 158, 3, 4, 41, 54, 144, 61, 95,137, 97, 117, 145, 146, 83, 53, 37, 32, 151, 111, 23, 169, 26, 178, 168,122, 52, 94, 166, 138, 10, 81, 49, 84, 39, 68, 103, 74, 50, 114, 108,60, 104, 173, 56, 34, 92, 75, 91, and 27.

FIG. 246 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 5/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 246, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 129, 65, 160, 140, 32, 50, 162, 86, 177,57, 157, 9, 134, 104, 24, 7, 122, 46, 17, 77, 31, 92, 163, 148, 133, 99,18, 0, 167, 101, 110, 135, 124, 71, 107, 5, 123, 69, 108, 141, 179, 96,113, 83, 176, 52, 117, 81, 125, 59, 15, 137, 170, 63, 112, 88, 34, 61,106, 3, 42, 100, 152, 87, 171, 72, 161, 4, 178, 64, 150, 10, 128, 49,26, 75, 41, 102, 28, 2, 168, 93, 156, 12, 38, 45, 151, 142, 44, 66, 25,139, 173, 51, 29, 147, 175, 90, 164, 80, 131, 58, 114, 145, 121, 70,115, 146, 120, 55, 158, 8, 39, 97, 159, 138, 33, 47, 116, 79, 174, 74,21, 6, 130, 54, 109, 76, 35, 98, 155, 144, 36, 94, 23, 78, 165, 56, 154,89, 132, 67, 119, 143, 40, 53, 20, 136, 172, 91, 27, 13, 127, 73, 105,85, 30, 103, 19, 84, 37, 48, 153, 11, 166, 60, 111, 14, 169, 95, 118, 1,126, 68, 22, 149, 43, 62, 16, and 82.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 246, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 129, 32, 177, 134, 122, 31, 133, 167, 124,123, 179, 176, 125, 170, 34, 42, 171, 178, 128, 41, 168, 38, 44, 173,175, 131, 121, 120, 39, 33, 174, 130, 35, 36, 165, 132, 40, 172, 127,30, 37, 166, 169, 126, 43, 65, 50, 57, 104, 46, 92, 99, 101, 71, 69, 96,52, 59, 63, 61, 100, 72, 64, 49, 102, 93, 45, 66, 51, 90, 58, 70, 55,97, 47, 74, 54, 98, 94, 56, 67, 53, 91, 73, 103, 48, 60, 95, 68, 62,160, 162, 157, 24, 17, 163, 18, 110, 107, 108, 113, 117, 15, 112, 106,152, 161, 150, 26, 28, 156, 151, 25, 29, 164, 114, 115, 158, 159, 116,21, 109, 155, 23, 154, 119, 20, 27, 105, 19, 153, 111, 118, 22, 16, 140,86, 9, 7, 77, 148, 0, 135, 5, 141, 83, 81, 137, 88, 3, 87, 4, 10, 75, 2,12, 142, 139, 147, 80, 145, 146, 8, 138, 79, 6, 76, 144, 78, 89, 143,136, 13, 85, 84, 11, 14, 1, 149, and 82.

FIG. 247 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 6/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 247, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 55, 146, 83, 52, 62, 176, 160, 68, 53, 56,81, 97, 79, 113, 163, 61, 58, 69, 133, 108, 66, 71, 86, 144, 57, 67,116, 59, 70, 156, 172, 65, 149, 155, 82, 138, 136, 141, 111, 96, 170,90, 140, 64, 159, 15, 14, 37, 54, 44, 63, 43, 18, 47, 7, 25, 34, 29, 30,26, 39, 16, 41, 45, 36, 0, 23, 32, 28, 27, 38, 48, 33, 22, 49, 51, 60,46, 21, 4, 3, 20, 13, 50, 35, 24, 40, 17, 42, 6, 112, 93, 127, 101, 94,115, 105, 31, 19, 177, 74, 10, 145, 162, 102, 120, 126, 95, 73, 152,129, 174, 125, 72, 128, 78, 171, 8, 142, 178, 154, 85, 107, 75, 12, 9,151, 77, 117, 109, 80, 106, 134, 98, 1, 122, 173, 161, 150, 110, 175,166, 131, 119, 103, 139, 148, 157, 114, 147, 87, 158, 121, 164, 104, 89,179, 123, 118, 99, 88, 11, 92, 165, 84, 168, 124, 169, 2, 130, 167, 153,137, 143, 91, 100, 5, 76, 132, and 135.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 247, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 55, 15, 112, 122, 146, 14, 93, 173, 83,37, 127, 161, 52, 54, 101, 150, 62, 44, 94, 110, 176, 63, 115, 175, 160,43, 105, 166, 68, 18, 31, 131, 53, 47, 19, 119, 56, 7, 177, 103, 81, 25,74, 139, 97, 34, 10, 148, 79, 29, 145, 157, 113, 30, 162, 114, 163, 26,102, 147, 61, 39, 120, 87, 58, 16, 126, 158, 69, 41, 95, 121, 133, 45,73, 164, 108, 36, 152, 104, 66, 0, 129, 89, 71, 23, 174, 179, 86, 32,125, 123, 144, 28, 72, 118, 57, 27, 128, 99, 67, 38, 78, 88, 116, 48,171, 11, 59, 33, 8, 92, 70, 22, 142, 165, 156, 49, 178, 84, 172, 51,154, 168, 65, 60, 85, 124, 149, 46, 107, 169, 155, 21, 75, 2, 82, 4, 12,130, 138, 3, 9, 167, 136, 20, 151, 153, 141, 13, 77, 137, 111, 50, 117,143, 96, 35, 109, 91, 170, 24, 80, 100, 90, 40, 106, 5, 140, 17, 134,76, 64, 42, 98, 132, 159, 6, 1, and 135.

FIG. 248 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 7/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 248, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 174, 148, 56, 168, 38, 7, 110, 9, 42, 153,160, 15, 46, 21, 121, 88, 114, 85, 13, 83, 74, 81, 70, 27, 119, 118,144, 31, 80, 109, 73, 141, 93, 45, 16, 77, 108, 57, 36, 78, 124, 79,169, 143, 6, 58, 75, 67, 5, 104, 125, 140, 172, 8, 39, 17, 29, 159, 86,87, 41, 99, 89, 47, 128, 43, 161, 154, 101, 163, 116, 94, 120, 71, 158,145, 37, 112, 68, 95, 1, 113, 64, 72, 90, 92, 35, 167, 44, 149, 66, 28,82, 178, 176, 152, 23, 115, 130, 98, 123, 102, 24, 129, 150, 34, 136,171, 54, 107, 2, 3, 60, 69, 10, 117, 91, 157, 33, 105, 155, 62, 162, 40,127, 14, 165, 26, 52, 19, 48, 137, 4, 22, 122, 173, 18, 11, 111, 106,76, 53, 61, 147, 97, 175, 32, 59, 166, 179, 135, 177, 103, 100, 139, 50,146, 134, 133, 96, 49, 126, 151, 84, 156, 30, 138, 164, 132, 12, 0, 20,63, 170, 142, 65, 55, 25, 51, and 131.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 248, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 174, 58, 66, 173, 148, 75, 28, 18, 56, 67,82, 11, 168, 5, 178, 111, 38, 104, 176, 106, 7, 125, 152, 76, 110, 140,23, 53, 9, 172, 115, 61, 42, 8, 130, 147, 153, 39, 98, 97, 160, 17, 123,175, 15, 29, 102, 32, 46, 159, 24, 59, 21, 86, 129, 166, 121, 87, 150,179, 88, 41, 34, 135, 114, 99, 136, 177, 85, 89, 171, 103, 13, 47, 54,100, 83, 128, 107, 139, 74, 43, 2, 50, 81, 161, 3, 146, 70, 154, 60,134, 27, 101, 69, 133, 119, 163, 10, 96, 118, 116, 117, 49, 144, 94, 91,126, 31, 120, 157, 151, 80, 71, 33, 84, 109, 158, 105, 156, 73, 145,155, 30, 141, 37, 62, 138, 93, 112, 162, 164, 45, 68, 40, 132, 16, 95,127, 12, 77, 1, 14, 0, 108, 113, 165, 20, 57, 64, 26, 63, 36, 72, 52,170, 78, 90, 19, 142, 124, 92, 48, 65, 79, 35, 137, 55, 169, 167, 4, 25,143, 44, 22, 51, 6, 149, 122, and 131.

FIG. 249 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 8/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 249, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 71, 81, 170, 101, 143, 77, 128, 112, 155,41, 40, 54, 57, 28, 179, 114, 97, 13, 18, 151, 91, 88, 79, 92, 137, 27,122, 107, 135, 82, 125, 103, 74, 36, 9, 93, 0, 86, 63, 158, 148, 25,167, 116, 70, 43, 102, 106, 149, 24, 169, 113, 127, 34, 165, 100, 136,75, 134, 156, 96, 84, 178, 150, 140, 20, 126, 73, 68, 130, 121, 48, 53,22, 129, 99, 11, 33, 124, 157, 161, 29, 123, 160, 55, 26, 168, 98, 67,15, 7, 94, 144, 1, 61, 65, 146, 42, 172, 115, 59, 76, 4, 162, 39, 85,12, 72, 58, 44, 132, 47, 141, 35, 176, 104, 139, 80, 6, 95, 87, 90, 173,163, 69, 32, 8, 154, 145, 23, 177, 111, 60, 38, 171, 62, 46, 21, 5, 153,49, 78, 2, 109, 147, 89, 166, 152, 138, 31, 14, 131, 50, 37, 16, 117,66, 19, 10, 159, 142, 105, 3, 164, 51, 83, 174, 108, 52, 17, 64, 119,45, 133, 175, 110, 56, 30, 120, and 118.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 249, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 71, 143, 155, 57, 97, 91, 137, 135, 74, 0,148, 70, 149, 127, 136, 96, 140, 68, 53, 11, 161, 55, 67, 144, 146, 59,39, 58, 141, 139, 87, 69, 145, 60, 46, 49, 147, 138, 50, 66, 142, 51,52, 45, 56, 81, 77, 41, 28, 13, 88, 27, 82, 36, 86, 25, 43, 24, 34, 75,84, 20, 130, 22, 33, 29, 26, 15, 1, 42, 76, 85, 44, 35, 80, 90, 32, 23,38, 21, 78, 89, 31, 37, 19, 105, 83, 17, 133, 30, 170, 128, 40, 179, 18,79, 122, 125, 9, 63, 167, 102, 169, 165, 134, 178, 126, 121, 129, 124,123, 168, 7, 61, 172, 4, 12, 132, 176, 6, 173, 8, 177, 171, 5, 2, 166,14, 16, 10, 3, 174, 64, 175, 120, 101, 112, 54, 114, 151, 92, 107, 103,93, 158, 116, 106, 113, 100, 156, 150, 73, 48, 99, 157, 160, 98, 94, 65,115, 162, 72, 47, 104, 95, 163, 154, 111, 62, 153, 109, 152, 131, 117,159, 164, 108, 119, 110, and 118.

FIG. 250 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 9/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 250, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 23, 89, 10, 142, 19, 41, 1, 146, 68, 87,9, 51, 114, 92, 121, 69, 107, 97, 166, 162, 55, 174, 126, 149, 110, 128,172, 28, 111, 78, 82, 120, 71, 52, 5, 141, 29, 30, 132, 148, 72, 85, 17,160, 156, 154, 131, 164, 65, 76, 125, 50, 16, 130, 129, 143, 133, 98, 0,42, 63, 83, 173, 49, 74, 43, 8, 147, 61, 36, 167, 119, 27, 86, 102, 48,115, 99, 38, 163, 73, 101, 4, 153, 118, 90, 124, 151, 66, 93, 123, 157,24, 44, 168, 80, 15, 39, 178, 45, 21, 37, 11, 136, 113, 77, 122, 158,64, 81, 6, 60, 54, 35, 13, 57, 171, 100, 117, 46, 62, 33, 175, 137, 59,103, 127, 70, 108, 88, 179, 40, 112, 104, 170, 140, 67, 32, 105, 159,26, 96, 169, 135, 109, 47, 177, 56, 116, 79, 106, 150, 25, 94, 134, 152,22, 84, 176, 139, 20, 34, 165, 138, 7, 91, 12, 145, 58, 95, 2, 144, 53,75, 14, 155, 18, 31, 3, and 161.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 250, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 23, 19, 68, 114, 107, 55, 110, 111, 71,29, 72, 156, 65, 16, 133, 63, 74, 61, 27, 115, 73, 118, 66, 24, 15, 21,113, 64, 54, 171, 62, 59, 108, 112, 67, 26, 109, 116, 25, 22, 20, 7, 58,53, 18, 89, 41, 87, 92, 97, 174, 128, 78, 52, 30, 85, 154, 76, 130, 98,83, 43, 36, 86, 99, 101, 90, 93, 44, 39, 37, 77, 81, 35, 100, 33, 103,88, 104, 32, 96, 47, 79, 94, 84, 34, 91, 95, 75, 31, 10, 1, 9, 121, 166,126, 172, 82, 5, 132, 17, 131, 125, 129, 0, 173, 8, 167, 102, 38, 4,124, 123, 168, 178, 11, 122, 6, 13, 117, 175, 127, 179, 170, 105, 169,177, 106, 134, 176, 165, 12, 2, 14, 3, 142, 146, 51, 69, 162, 149, 28,120, 141, 148, 160, 164, 50, 143, 42, 49, 147, 119, 48, 163, 153, 151,157, 80, 45, 136, 158, 60, 57, 46, 137, 70, 40, 140, 159, 135, 56, 150,152, 139, 138, 145, 144, 155, and 161.

FIG. 251 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 10/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 251, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 68, 71, 54, 19, 25, 21, 102, 32, 105, 29,16, 79, 53, 82, 107, 91, 67, 94, 85, 48, 83, 58, 42, 57, 28, 76, 31, 26,96, 65, 119, 114, 109, 9, 125, 81, 43, 103, 93, 70, 46, 89, 112, 61, 45,66, 38, 77, 115, 56, 87, 113, 100, 75, 72, 60, 47, 92, 36, 98, 4, 59, 6,44, 20, 86, 3, 73, 95, 104, 8, 34, 0, 84, 111, 35, 30, 64, 55, 80, 40,97, 101, 2, 69, 63, 74, 62, 118, 110, 159, 18, 50, 33, 7, 175, 51, 131,106, 134, 88, 140, 117, 132, 147, 153, 116, 161, 10, 39, 126, 136, 90,37, 174, 41, 158, 5, 120, 12, 52, 99, 146, 144, 78, 155, 128, 165, 141,179, 150, 157, 171, 143, 108, 170, 22, 49, 11, 27, 160, 178, 133, 142,121, 168, 173, 123, 13, 15, 154, 127, 139, 151, 163, 172, 138, 176, 145,129, 162, 152, 177, 137, 149, 167, 1, 14, 169, 124, 148, 164, 130, 17,156, 122, 23, 166, 135, and 24.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 251, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 68, 66, 159, 170, 71, 38, 18, 22, 54, 77,50, 49, 19, 115, 33, 11, 25, 56, 7, 27, 21, 87, 175, 160, 102, 113, 51,178, 32, 100, 131, 133, 105, 75, 106, 142, 29, 72, 134, 121, 16, 60, 88,168, 79, 47, 140, 173, 53, 92, 117, 123, 82, 36, 132, 13, 107, 98, 147,15, 91, 4, 153, 154, 67, 59, 116, 127, 94, 6, 161, 139, 85, 44, 10, 151,48, 20, 39, 163, 83, 86, 126, 172, 58, 3, 136, 138, 42, 73, 90, 176, 57,95, 37, 145, 28, 104, 174, 129, 76, 8, 41, 162, 31, 34, 158, 152, 26, 0,5, 177, 96, 84, 120, 137, 65, 111, 12, 149, 119, 35, 52, 167, 114, 30,99, 1, 109, 64, 146, 14, 9, 55, 144, 169, 125, 80, 78, 124, 81, 40, 155,148, 43, 97, 128, 164, 103, 101, 165, 130, 93, 2, 141, 17, 70, 69, 179,156, 46, 63, 150, 122, 89, 74, 157, 23, 112, 62, 171, 166, 61, 118, 143,135, 45, 110, 108, and 24.

FIG. 252 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 11/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 252, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 21, 11, 12, 9, 0, 6, 24, 25, 85, 103, 118,122, 71, 101, 41, 93, 55, 73, 100, 40, 106, 119, 45, 80, 128, 68, 129,61, 124, 36, 126, 117, 114, 132, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 160, 164,168, 172, 176, 20, 18, 10, 13, 16, 8, 26, 27, 54, 111, 52, 44, 87, 113,115, 58, 116, 49, 77, 95, 86, 30, 78, 81, 56, 125, 53, 89, 94, 50, 123,65, 83, 133, 137, 141, 145, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 2,17, 1, 4, 7, 15, 29, 82, 32, 102, 76, 121, 92, 130, 127, 62, 107, 38,46, 43, 110, 75, 104, 70, 91, 69, 96, 120, 42, 34, 79, 35, 105, 134,138, 142, 146, 150, 154, 158, 162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 19, 5, 3, 14, 22,28, 23, 109, 51, 108, 131, 33, 84, 88, 64, 63, 59, 57, 97, 98, 48, 31,99, 37, 72, 39, 74, 66, 60, 67, 47, 112, 90, 135, 139, 143, 147, 151,155, 159, 163, 167, 171, 175, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 252, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 21, 20, 2, 19, 11, 18, 17, 5, 12, 10, 1,3, 9, 13, 4, 14, 0, 16, 7, 22, 6, 8, 15, 28, 24, 26, 29, 23, 25, 27, 82,109, 85, 54, 32, 51, 103, 111, 102, 108, 118, 52, 76, 131, 122, 44, 121,33, 71, 87, 92, 84, 101, 113, 130, 88, 41, 115, 127, 64, 93, 58, 62, 63,55, 116, 107, 59, 73, 49, 38, 57, 100, 77, 46, 97, 40, 95, 43, 98, 106,86, 110, 48, 119, 30, 75, 31, 45, 78, 104, 99, 80, 81, 70, 37, 128, 56,91, 72, 68, 125, 69, 39, 129, 53, 96, 74, 61, 89, 120, 66, 124, 94, 42,60, 36, 50, 34, 67, 126, 123, 79, 47, 117, 65, 35, 112, 114, 83, 105,90, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144,145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158,159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172,173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 253 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 12/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 253, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 120, 32, 38, 113, 71, 31, 65, 109, 36,106, 134, 66, 29, 86, 136, 108, 83, 70, 79, 81, 105, 48, 30, 125, 107,44, 99, 75, 64, 78, 51, 95, 88, 49, 60, 54, 122, 140, 137, 89, 74, 129,82, 164, 59, 3, 67, 92, 98, 42, 77, 28, 121, 87, 18, 21, 93, 72, 2, 142,112, 9, 50, 8, 90, 139, 14, 97, 63, 85, 104, 124, 52, 20, 118, 34, 5,94, 41, 68, 80, 110, 12, 133, 131, 53, 116, 123, 96, 61, 111, 33, 173,165, 175, 166, 169, 174, 159, 148, 158, 155, 145, 178, 126, 100, 154,156, 179, 157, 46, 149, 171, 37, 153, 163, 152, 146, 177, 103, 160, 147,76, 172, 144, 150, 132, 176, 168, 167, 162, 170, 138, 151, 161, 40, 26,130, 119, 114, 117, 115, 84, 57, 62, 13, 47, 24, 0, 7, 10, 69, 19, 127,17, 16, 27, 91, 4, 73, 35, 102, 15, 55, 23, 25, 11, 56, 45, 58, 128, 43,135, 1, 143, 141, 6, 22, 101, and 39.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 253, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 120, 3, 111, 40, 32, 67, 33, 26, 38, 92,173, 130, 113, 98, 165, 119, 71, 42, 175, 114, 31, 77, 166, 117, 65, 28,169, 115, 109, 121, 174, 84, 36, 87, 159, 57, 106, 18, 148, 62, 134, 21,158, 13, 66, 93, 155, 47, 29, 72, 145, 24, 86, 2, 178, 0, 136, 142, 126,7, 108, 112, 100, 10, 83, 9, 154, 69, 70, 50, 156, 19, 79, 8, 179, 127,81, 90, 157, 17, 105, 139, 46, 16, 48, 14, 149, 27, 30, 97, 171, 91,125, 63, 37, 4, 107, 85, 153, 73, 44, 104, 163, 35, 99, 124, 152, 102,75, 52, 146, 15, 64, 20, 177, 55, 78, 118, 103, 23, 51, 34, 160, 25, 95,5, 147, 11, 88, 94, 76, 56, 49, 41, 172, 45, 60, 68, 144, 58, 54, 80,150, 128, 122, 110, 132, 43, 140, 12, 176, 135, 137, 133, 168, 1, 89,131, 167, 143, 74, 53, 162, 141, 129, 116, 170, 6, 82, 123, 138, 22,164, 96, 151, 101, 59, 61, 161, and 39.

FIG. 254 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 13/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 254, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40,44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108,112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 160, 164,168, 172, 176, 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 57,61, 65, 69, 73, 77, 81, 85, 89, 93, 97, 101, 105, 109, 113, 117, 121,125, 129, 133, 137, 141, 145, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 2,6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 70, 74,78, 82, 86, 90, 94, 98, 102, 106, 110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130, 134,138, 142, 146, 150, 154, 158, 162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 3, 7, 11, 15, 19,23, 27, 31, 35, 39, 43, 47, 51, 55, 59, 63, 67, 71, 75, 79, 83, 87, 91,95, 99, 103, 107, 111, 115, 119, 123, 127, 131, 135, 139, 143, 147, 151,155, 159, 163, 167, 171, 175, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 254, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66,67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101,102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115,116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129,130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143,144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157,158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171,172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 255 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 2/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 255, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 57, 149, 83, 142, 29, 20, 30, 52, 5, 100,156, 22, 130, 167, 121, 126, 137, 158, 132, 82, 138, 128, 89, 88, 162,32, 107, 3, 97, 166, 125, 129, 1, 6, 68, 148, 40, 87, 0, 80, 49, 24, 78,101, 43, 112, 75, 172, 23, 154, 12, 146, 19, 135, 48, 170, 123, 147, 95,91, 13, 35, 127, 61, 60, 139, 44, 59, 55, 109, 157, 177, 153, 165, 66,152, 77, 98, 131, 11, 81, 62, 175, 141, 171, 51, 155, 76, 150, 174, 58,143, 37, 63, 31, 41, 140, 118, 94, 27, 10, 70, 56, 93, 176, 124, 151,106, 46, 163, 179, 4, 18, 144, 178, 161, 145, 71, 114, 7, 105, 133, 84,86, 17, 21, 28, 54, 74, 65, 110, 122, 169, 64, 111, 119, 42, 85, 73, 8,116, 79, 120, 69, 53, 115, 67, 104, 16, 173, 92, 15, 159, 134, 99, 96,117, 38, 9, 26, 164, 47, 103, 113, 136, 168, 102, 14, 45, 72, 25, 50,34, 36, 90, 160, 2, 33, 39, and 108.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 255, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 57, 125, 13, 58, 105, 92, 149, 129, 35,143, 133, 15, 83, 1, 127, 37, 84, 159, 142, 6, 61, 63, 86, 134, 29, 68,60, 31, 17, 99, 20, 148, 139, 41, 21, 96, 30, 40, 44, 140, 28, 117, 52,87, 59, 118, 54, 38, 5, 0, 55, 94, 74, 9, 100, 80, 109, 27, 65, 26, 156,49, 157, 10, 110, 164, 22, 24, 177, 70, 122, 47, 130, 78, 153, 56, 169,103, 167, 101, 165, 93, 64, 113, 121, 43, 66, 176, 111, 136, 126, 112,152, 124, 119, 168, 137, 75, 77, 151, 42, 102, 158, 172, 98, 106, 85,14, 132, 23, 131, 46, 73, 45, 82, 154, 11, 163, 8, 72, 138, 12, 81, 179,116, 25, 128, 146, 62, 4, 79, 50, 89, 19, 175, 18, 120, 34, 88, 135,141, 144, 69, 36, 162, 48, 171, 178, 53, 90, 32, 170, 51, 161, 115, 160,107, 123, 155, 145, 67, 2, 3, 147, 76, 71, 104, 33, 97, 95, 150, 114,16, 39, 166, 91, 174, 7, 173, and 108.

FIG. 256 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 3/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 256, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 74, 72, 104, 62, 122, 35, 130, 0, 95, 150,139, 151, 133, 109, 31, 59, 18, 148, 9, 105, 57, 132, 102, 100, 115,101, 7, 21, 141, 30, 8, 1, 93, 92, 163, 108, 52, 159, 24, 89, 117, 88,178, 113, 98, 179, 144, 156, 54, 164, 12, 63, 39, 22, 25, 137, 13, 41,44, 80, 87, 111, 145, 23, 85, 166, 83, 55, 154, 20, 84, 58, 26, 126,170, 103, 11, 33, 172, 155, 116, 169, 142, 70, 161, 47, 3, 162, 77, 19,28, 97, 124, 6, 168, 107, 60, 76, 143, 121, 42, 157, 65, 43, 173, 56,171, 90, 131, 119, 94, 5, 68, 138, 149, 73, 67, 53, 61, 4, 86, 99, 75,36, 15, 48, 177, 167, 174, 51, 176, 81, 120, 158, 123, 34, 49, 128, 10,134, 147, 96, 160, 50, 146, 16, 38, 78, 91, 152, 46, 127, 27, 175, 135,79, 125, 82, 2, 129, 153, 14, 40, 32, 114, 106, 17, 110, 140, 71, 136,112, 45, 64, 29, 69, 118, 66, 37, and 165.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 256, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 74, 8, 87, 28, 86, 46, 72, 1, 111, 97, 99,127, 104, 93, 145, 124, 75, 27, 62, 92, 23, 6, 36, 175, 122, 163, 85,168, 15, 135, 35, 108, 166, 107, 48, 79, 130, 52, 83, 60, 177, 125, 0,159, 55, 76, 167, 82, 95, 24, 154, 143, 174, 2, 150, 89, 20, 121, 51,129, 139, 117, 84, 42, 176, 153, 151, 88, 58, 157, 81, 14, 133, 178, 26,65, 120, 40, 109, 113, 126, 43, 158, 32, 31, 98, 170, 173, 123, 114, 59,179, 103, 56, 34, 106, 18, 144, 11, 171, 49, 17, 148, 156, 33, 90, 128,110, 9, 54, 172, 131, 10, 140, 105, 164, 155, 119, 134, 71, 57, 12, 116,94, 147, 136, 132, 63, 169, 5, 96, 112, 102, 39, 142, 68, 160, 45, 100,22, 70, 138, 50, 64, 115, 25, 161, 149, 146, 29, 101, 137, 47, 73, 16,69, 7, 13, 3, 67, 38, 118, 21, 41, 162, 53, 78, 66, 141, 44, 77, 61, 91,37, 30, 80, 19, 4, 152, and 165.

FIG. 257 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 4/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 257, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 141, 80, 47, 89, 44, 7, 46, 11, 175, 173,99, 2, 155, 52, 86, 128, 174, 33, 170, 31, 35, 162, 64, 95, 92, 4, 16,49, 137, 104, 29, 9, 60, 167, 50, 23, 43, 176, 121, 71, 132, 103, 144,39, 12, 90, 114, 131, 106, 76, 118, 66, 24, 58, 122, 150, 57, 149, 93,53, 14, 73, 165, 82, 126, 97, 59, 133, 154, 153, 72, 36, 5, 96, 120,134, 101, 61, 115, 0, 28, 42, 18, 145, 156, 85, 146, 6, 161, 10, 22,138, 127, 151, 87, 54, 20, 139, 140, 152, 13, 91, 111, 25, 123, 77, 78,69, 3, 177, 41, 81, 19, 107, 45, 148, 70, 160, 51, 21, 116, 48, 157, 17,125, 142, 83, 110, 37, 98, 179, 129, 168, 172, 1, 40, 166, 159, 147, 56,100, 63, 26, 169, 135, 15, 75, 84, 163, 79, 143, 113, 94, 74, 102, 30,38, 178, 68, 108, 136, 105, 158, 117, 34, 109, 67, 62, 32, 119, 124,171, 8, 55, 65, 130, 88, 112, 27, and 164.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 257, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 141, 29, 14, 22, 116, 143, 80, 9, 73, 138,48, 113, 47, 60, 165, 127, 157, 94, 89, 167, 82, 151, 17, 74, 44, 50,126, 87, 125, 102, 7, 23, 97, 54, 142, 30, 46, 43, 59, 20, 83, 38, 11,176, 133, 139, 110, 178, 175, 121, 154, 140, 37, 68, 173, 71, 153, 152,98, 108, 99, 132, 72, 13, 179, 136, 2, 103, 36, 91, 129, 105, 155, 144,5, 111, 168, 158, 52, 39, 96, 25, 172, 117, 86, 12, 120, 123, 1, 34,128, 90, 134, 77, 40, 109, 174, 114, 101, 78, 166, 67, 33, 131, 61, 69,159, 62, 170, 106, 115, 3, 147, 32, 31, 76, 0, 177, 56, 119, 35, 118,28, 41, 100, 124, 162, 66, 42, 81, 63, 171, 64, 24, 18, 19, 26, 8, 95,58, 145, 107, 169, 55, 92, 122, 156, 45, 135, 65, 4, 150, 85, 148, 15,130, 16, 57, 146, 70, 75, 88, 49, 149, 6, 160, 84, 112, 137, 93, 161,51, 163, 27, 104, 53, 10, 21, 79, and 164.

FIG. 258 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 5/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 258, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 166, 54, 6, 27, 141, 134, 58, 46, 55, 91,56, 100, 172, 80, 18, 152, 12, 108, 170, 29, 144, 147, 106, 165, 17,127, 57, 88, 35, 72, 5, 63, 118, 1, 85, 77, 61, 62, 84, 159, 92, 102,98, 177, 132, 139, 59, 149, 11, 8, 154, 129, 33, 15, 143, 4, 95, 101,53, 42, 40, 9, 111, 130, 123, 82, 81, 114, 119, 175, 157, 41, 38, 128,161, 52, 142, 7, 26, 145, 2, 68, 28, 126, 121, 70, 16, 65, 83, 125, 50,79, 37, 74, 164, 168, 160, 122, 60, 32, 24, 138, 75, 69, 0, 36, 97, 117,14, 109, 173, 120, 112, 87, 176, 124, 151, 67, 13, 94, 105, 133, 64, 76,153, 31, 136, 140, 150, 39, 96, 66, 3, 115, 20, 99, 171, 49, 25, 45, 22,30, 156, 158, 163, 135, 21, 146, 90, 169, 78, 93, 178, 116, 19, 155,110, 73, 104, 167, 44, 113, 162, 89, 47, 43, 86, 48, 107, 71, 137, 51,174, 103, 131, 179, 148, 10, 23, and 34.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 258, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 166, 5, 40, 50, 105, 78, 54, 63, 9, 79,133, 93, 6, 118, 111, 37, 64, 178, 27, 1, 130, 74, 76, 116, 141, 85,123, 164, 153, 19, 134, 77, 82, 168, 31, 155, 58, 61, 81, 160, 136, 110,46, 62, 114, 122, 140, 73, 55, 84, 119, 60, 150, 104, 91, 159, 175, 32,39, 167, 56, 92, 157, 24, 96, 44, 100, 102, 41, 138, 66, 113, 172, 98,38, 75, 3, 162, 80, 177, 128, 69, 115, 89, 18, 132, 161, 0, 20, 47, 152,139, 52, 36, 99, 43, 12, 59, 142, 97, 171, 86, 108, 149, 7, 117, 49, 48,170, 11, 26, 14, 25, 107, 29, 8, 145, 109, 45, 71, 144, 154, 2, 173, 22,137, 147, 129, 68, 120, 30, 51, 106, 33, 28, 112, 156, 174, 165, 15,126, 87, 158, 103, 17, 143, 121, 176, 163, 131, 127, 4, 70, 124, 135,179, 57, 95, 16, 151, 21, 148, 88, 101, 65, 67, 146, 10, 35, 53, 83, 13,90, 23, 72, 42, 125, 94, 169, and 34.

FIG. 259 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 6/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 259, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 29, 17, 38, 37, 27, 43, 31, 35, 16, 46,44, 9, 23, 1, 34, 45, 14, 18, 156, 19, 22, 40, 50, 24, 56, 49, 26, 42,69, 47, 59, 61, 66, 52, 64, 65, 67, 54, 170, 68, 132, 51, 70, 41, 21, 5,160, 7, 13, 55, 62, 53, 63, 58, 3, 167, 71, 57, 151, 60, 36, 25, 74, 39,32, 72, 85, 86, 107, 113, 48, 88, 2, 129, 137, 20, 73, 166, 75, 77, 142,174, 15, 149, 28, 145, 92, 169, 30, 133, 163, 119, 82, 176, 152, 134,139, 148, 164, 99, 173, 104, 83, 106, 112, 135, 153, 0, 128, 144, 98,171, 94, 97, 143, 110, 118, 127, 84, 79, 108, 126, 131, 93, 111, 91, 4,125, 162, 157, 158, 109, 140, 123, 154, 150, 80, 11, 12, 146, 96, 81,165, 8, 89, 138, 105, 141, 103, 6, 100, 161, 172, 78, 101, 115, 179,147, 116, 136, 122, 87, 33, 130, 124, 175, 120, 90, 102, 10, 114, 159,76, 177, 178, 121, 168, 95, 117, and 155.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 259, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 29, 59, 36, 163, 108, 100, 17, 61, 25,119, 126, 161, 38, 66, 74, 82, 131, 172, 37, 52, 39, 176, 93, 78, 27,64, 32, 152, 111, 101, 43, 65, 72, 134, 91, 115, 31, 67, 85, 139, 4,179, 35, 54, 86, 148, 125, 147, 16, 170, 107, 164, 162, 116, 46, 68,113, 99, 157, 136, 44, 132, 48, 173, 158, 122, 9, 51, 88, 104, 109, 87,23, 70, 2, 83, 140, 33, 1, 41, 129, 106, 123, 130, 34, 21, 137, 112,154, 124, 45, 5, 20, 135, 150, 175, 14, 160, 73, 153, 80, 120, 18, 7,166, 0, 11, 90, 156, 13, 75, 128, 12, 102, 19, 55, 77, 144, 146, 10, 22,62, 142, 98, 96, 114, 40, 53, 174, 171, 81, 159, 50, 63, 15, 94, 165,76, 24, 58, 149, 97, 8, 177, 56, 3, 28, 143, 89, 178, 49, 167, 145, 110,138, 121, 26, 71, 92, 118, 105, 168, 42, 57, 169, 127, 141, 95, 69, 151,30, 84, 103, 117, 47, 60, 133, 79, 6, and 155.

FIG. 260 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 7/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 260, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 103, 36, 155, 175, 52, 130, 16, 178, 141,86, 49, 129, 73, 84, 142, 177, 110, 8, 96, 77, 139, 167, 109, 2, 17, 37,146, 169, 54, 134, 101, 78, 135, 70, 153, 6, 29, 41, 143, 63, 47, 124,90, 31, 152, 98, 59, 133, 15, 79, 164, 67, 50, 128, 23, 34, 154, 69, 45,9, 27, 35, 156, 170, 113, 127, 102, 82, 149, 176, 46, 13, 22, 30, 163,60, 114, 11, 92, 44, 157, 74, 48, 132, 24, 87, 140, 66, 118, 123, 104,89, 136, 64, 107, 14, 99, 43, 115, 71, 117, 12, 26, 38, 147, 62, 57,131, 94, 33, 151, 172, 116, 10, 25, 75, 144, 179, 51, 120, 20, 80, 160,174, 106, 1, 21, 88, 137, 61, 105, 5, 18, 32, 158, 72, 56, 125, 28, 42,161, 168, 53, 7, 100, 40, 145, 171, 55, 3, 95, 83, 162, 173, 119, 126,91, 39, 150, 165, 112, 122, 93, 76, 138, 166, 108, 121, 97, 81, 148, 65,111, 4, 19, 85, 159, 68, 58, and 0.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 260, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 103, 16, 73, 96, 17, 101, 29, 90, 15, 23,27, 102, 22, 92, 24, 104, 99, 26, 94, 25, 20, 21, 18, 28, 100, 95, 91,93, 97, 19, 36, 178, 84, 77, 37, 78, 41, 31, 79, 34, 35, 82, 30, 44, 87,89, 43, 38, 33, 75, 80, 88, 32, 42, 40, 83, 39, 76, 81, 85, 155, 141,142, 139, 146, 135, 143, 152, 164, 154, 156, 149, 163, 157, 140, 136,115, 147, 151, 144, 160, 137, 158, 161, 145, 162, 150, 138, 148, 159,175, 86, 177, 167, 169, 70, 63, 98, 67, 69, 170, 176, 60, 74, 66, 64,71, 62, 172, 179, 174, 61, 72, 168, 171, 173, 165, 166, 65, 68, 52, 49,110, 109, 54, 153, 47, 59, 50, 45, 113, 46, 114, 48, 118, 107, 117, 57,116, 51, 106, 105, 56, 53, 55, 119, 112, 108, 111, 58, 130, 129, 8, 2,134, 6, 124, 133, 128, 9, 127, 13, 11, 132, 123, 14, 12, 131, 10, 120,1, 5, 125, 7, 3, 126, 122, 121, 4, and 0.

FIG. 261 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 8/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 261, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 86, 71, 51, 48, 89, 94, 46, 81, 67, 49,80, 37, 55, 61, 36, 57, 52, 92, 60, 82, 76, 72, 44, 42, 91, 62, 50, 90,40, 78, 53, 58, 47, 85, 70, 4, 69, 43, 54, 84, 93, 38, 8, 64, 6, 18, 77,95, 66, 59, 83, 73, 17, 87, 3, 75, 65, 88, 79, 14, 151, 117, 32, 22,123, 30, 33, 162, 144, 9, 121, 108, 139, 142, 24, 34, 20, 157, 159, 138,143, 29, 140, 163, 150, 175, 114, 31, 12, 35, 145, 28, 27, 26, 16, 98,102, 103, 133, 161, 21, 25, 107, 153, 45, 156, 23, 125, 141, 56, 166, 5,1, 170, 119, 68, 134, 41, 74, 179, 2, 129, 169, 101, 99, 109, 127, 168,176, 11, 0, 122, 110, 113, 146, 132, 165, 19, 13, 39, 7, 164, 106, 172,154, 149, 10, 173, 131, 167, 63, 147, 155, 100, 171, 158, 160, 15, 178,148, 152, 104, 124, 177, 97, 130, 118, 137, 111, 126, 120, 105, 115,136, 112, 96, 135, 116, 174, and 128.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 261, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 86, 53, 151, 145, 2, 63, 71, 58, 117, 28,129, 147, 51, 47, 32, 27, 169, 155, 48, 85, 22, 26, 101, 100, 89, 70,123, 16, 99, 171, 94, 4, 30, 98, 109, 158, 46, 69, 33, 102, 127, 160,81, 43, 162, 103, 168, 15, 67, 54, 144, 133, 176, 178, 49, 84, 9, 161,11, 148, 80, 93, 121, 21, 0, 152, 37, 38, 108, 25, 122, 104, 55, 8, 139,107, 110, 124, 61, 64, 142, 153, 113, 177, 36, 6, 24, 45, 146, 97, 57,18, 34, 156, 132, 130, 52, 77, 20, 23, 165, 118, 92, 95, 157, 125, 19,137, 60, 66, 159, 141, 13, 111, 82, 59, 138, 56, 39, 126, 76, 83, 143,166, 7, 120, 72, 73, 29, 5, 164, 105, 44, 17, 140, 1, 106, 115, 42, 87,163, 170, 172, 136, 91, 3, 150, 119, 154, 112, 62, 75, 175, 68, 149, 96,50, 65, 114, 134, 10, 135, 90, 88, 31, 41, 173, 116, 40, 79, 12, 74,131, 174, 78, 14, 35, 179, 167, and 128.

FIG. 262 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 9/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 262, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 175, 60, 133, 11, 5, 4, 70, 97, 131, 80,42, 136, 50, 104, 32, 75, 176, 87, 109, 61, 39, 107, 0, 172, 23, 90, 54,160, 48, 173, 27, 100, 129, 14, 7, 142, 20, 103, 38, 126, 157, 144, 21,64, 44, 79, 105, 146, 49, 93, 1, 84, 81, 145, 18, 15, 106, 91, 12, 169,63, 71, 125, 37, 120, 138, 17, 113, 31, 130, 140, 8, 25, 74, 134, 115,9, 171, 46, 68, 33, 116, 2, 179, 52, 92, 36, 78, 164, 177, 24, 72, 122,118, 162, 121, 16, 73, 45, 53, 77, 110, 30, 66, 29, 76, 158, 148, 111,94, 43, 83, 139, 10, 56, 98, 114, 117, 152, 174, 47, 62, 128, 85, 155,178, 26, 96, 41, 82, 150, 143, 58, 69, 127, 86, 13, 141, 35, 101, 149,108, 3, 154, 51, 95, 132, 135, 163, 137, 28, 102, 123, 112, 151, 167,59, 19, 156, 119, 153, 168, 55, 65, 34, 6, 159, 170, 57, 67, 40, 89,147, 165, 22, 99, 124, 88, 161, and 166.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 262, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 175, 70, 50, 109, 23, 27, 20, 21, 49, 18,63, 17, 25, 46, 52, 24, 16, 30, 111, 56, 47, 26, 58, 35, 51, 28, 59, 55,57, 22, 60, 97, 104, 61, 90, 100, 103, 64, 93, 15, 71, 113, 74, 68, 92,72, 73, 66, 94, 98, 62, 96, 69, 101, 95, 102, 19, 65, 67, 99, 133, 131,32, 39, 54, 129, 38, 44, 1, 106, 125, 31, 134, 33, 36, 122, 45, 29, 43,114, 128, 41, 127, 149, 132, 123, 156, 34, 40, 124, 11, 80, 75, 107,160, 14, 126, 79, 84, 91, 37, 130, 115, 116, 78, 118, 53, 76, 83, 117,85, 82, 86, 108, 135, 112, 119, 6, 89, 88, 5, 42, 176, 0, 48, 7, 157,105, 81, 12, 120, 140, 9, 2, 164, 162, 77, 158, 139, 152, 155, 150, 13,3, 163, 151, 153, 159, 147, 161, 4, 136, 87, 172, 173, 142, 144, 146,145, 169, 138, 8, 171, 179, 177, 121, 110, 148, 10, 174, 178, 143, 141,154, 137, 167, 168, 170, 165, and 166.

FIG. 263 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 10/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 263, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 16, 163, 92, 56, 111, 141, 65, 118, 78,55, 5, 148, 19, 153, 75, 128, 32, 178, 22, 156, 99, 124, 4, 168, 20,115, 87, 122, 9, 166, 27, 155, 94, 134, 38, 137, 67, 161, 90, 127, 43,171, 64, 162, 98, 133, 34, 138, 73, 154, 100, 58, 103, 169, 23, 117, 88,50, 13, 175, 68, 39, 102, 54, 37, 149, 29, 150, 104, 59, 3, 139, 69,110, 77, 131, 42, 142, 25, 158, 80, 47, 35, 143, 72, 151, 84, 57, 8,176, 61, 46, 41, 51, 10, 173, 63, 107, 125, 48, 11, 177, 24, 30, 91, 76,109, 140, 74, 114, 82, 120, 1, 79, 66, 119, 93, 159, 36, 174, 26, 112,101, 123, 44, 145, 60, 157, 97, 45, 33, 167, 70, 152, 85, 126, 40, 135,62, 108, 95, 49, 31, 147, 71, 113, 89, 132, 6, 144, 18, 105, 83, 130, 2,172, 17, 164, 81, 52, 7, 179, 28, 160, 136, 121, 14, 146, 15, 106, 86,129, 12, 170, 21, 116, 96, 53, 0, and 165.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 263, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 16, 65, 19, 22, 20, 27, 67, 64, 73, 23,68, 29, 69, 25, 72, 61, 63, 24, 74, 66, 26, 60, 70, 62, 71, 18, 17, 28,15, 21, 163, 118, 153, 156, 115, 155, 161, 162, 154, 117, 39, 150, 110,158, 151, 46, 107, 30, 114, 119, 112, 157, 152, 108, 113, 105, 164, 160,106, 116, 92, 78, 75, 99, 87, 94, 90, 98, 100, 88, 102, 104, 77, 80, 84,41, 125, 91, 82, 93, 101, 97, 85, 95, 89, 83, 81, 136, 86, 96, 56, 55,128, 124, 122, 134, 127, 133, 58, 50, 54, 59, 131, 47, 57, 51, 48, 76,120, 159, 123, 45, 126, 49, 132, 130, 52, 121, 129, 53, 111, 5, 32, 4,9, 38, 43, 34, 103, 13, 37, 3, 42, 35, 8, 10, 11, 109, 1, 36, 44, 33,40, 31, 6, 2, 7, 14, 12, 0, 141, 148, 178, 168, 166, 137, 171, 138, 169,175, 149, 139, 142, 143, 176, 173, 177, 140, 79, 174, 145, 167, 135,147, 144, 172, 179, 146, 170, and 165.

FIG. 264 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 11/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 264, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 12, 15, 2, 16, 27, 50, 35, 74, 38, 70,108, 32, 112, 54, 30, 122, 72, 116, 36, 90, 49, 85, 132, 138, 144, 150,156, 162, 168, 174, 0, 14, 9, 5, 23, 66, 68, 52, 96, 117, 84, 128, 100,63, 60, 127, 81, 99, 53, 55, 103, 95, 133, 139, 145, 151, 157, 163, 169,175, 10, 22, 13, 11, 28, 104, 37, 57, 115, 46, 65, 129, 107, 75, 119,110, 31, 43, 97, 78, 125, 58, 134, 140, 146, 152, 158, 164, 170, 176, 4,19, 6, 8, 24, 44, 101, 94, 118, 130, 69, 71, 83, 34, 86, 124, 48, 106,89, 40, 102, 91, 135, 141, 147, 153, 159, 165, 171, 177, 3, 20, 7, 17,25, 87, 41, 120, 47, 80, 59, 62, 88, 45, 56, 131, 61, 126, 113, 92, 51,98, 136, 142, 148, 154, 160, 166, 172, 178, 21, 18, 1, 26, 29, 39, 73,121, 105, 77, 42, 114, 93, 82, 111, 109, 67, 79, 123, 64, 76, 33, 137,143, 149, 155, 161, 167, 173, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 264, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 12, 0, 10, 4, 3, 21, 15, 14, 22, 19, 20,18, 2, 9, 13, 6, 7, 1, 16, 5, 11, 8, 17, 26, 27, 23, 28, 24, 25, 29, 50,66, 104, 44, 87, 39, 35, 68, 37, 101, 41, 73, 74, 52, 57, 94, 120, 121,38, 96, 115, 118, 47, 105, 70, 117, 46, 130, 80, 77, 108, 84, 65, 69,59, 42, 32, 128, 129, 71, 62, 114, 112, 100, 107, 83, 88, 93, 54, 63,75, 34, 45, 82, 30, 60, 119, 86, 56, 111, 122, 127, 110, 124, 131, 109,72, 81, 31, 48, 61, 67, 116, 99, 43, 106, 126, 79, 36, 53, 97, 89, 113,123, 90, 55, 78, 40, 92, 64, 49, 103, 125, 102, 51, 76, 85, 95, 58, 91,98, 33, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144,145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158,159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172,173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 265 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 12/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 265, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 83, 93, 94, 47, 55, 40, 38, 77, 110, 124,87, 61, 102, 76, 33, 35, 92, 59, 74, 11, 138, 72, 67, 37, 10, 95, 139,131, 44, 57, 97, 53, 142, 0, 136, 9, 143, 86, 100, 21, 15, 75, 62, 19,65, 129, 101, 79, 22, 68, 73, 23, 18, 81, 98, 112, 8, 128, 103, 25, 43,126, 54, 90, 28, 109, 46, 91, 41, 82, 113, 134, 52, 105, 78, 27, 135,96, 56, 140, 64, 66, 89, 34, 120, 108, 63, 45, 69, 121, 88, 39, 29, 133,106, 117, 127, 32, 42, 58, 71, 118, 51, 84, 85, 80, 104, 132, 111, 30,26, 48, 50, 31, 141, 116, 123, 114, 70, 107, 178, 145, 173, 36, 144,130, 176, 171, 175, 125, 99, 162, 159, 20, 164, 115, 169, 172, 165, 161,151, 119, 122, 152, 157, 4, 137, 148, 153, 170, 154, 166, 13, 150, 16,167, 174, 163, 49, 6, 168, 147, 146, 1, 149, 158, 179, 12, 5, 160, 177,60, 24, 156, 7, 155, 17, 3, 2, and 14.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 265, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 83, 97, 43, 88, 178, 154, 93, 53, 126, 39,145, 166, 94, 142, 54, 29, 173, 13, 47, 0, 90, 133, 36, 150, 55, 136,28, 106, 144, 16, 40, 9, 109, 117, 130, 167, 38, 143, 46, 127, 176, 174,77, 86, 91, 32, 171, 163, 110, 100, 41, 42, 175, 49, 124, 21, 82, 58,125, 6, 87, 15, 113, 71, 99, 168, 61, 75, 134, 118, 162, 147, 102, 62,52, 51, 159, 146, 76, 19, 105, 84, 20, 1, 33, 65, 78, 85, 164, 149, 35,129, 27, 80, 115, 158, 92, 101, 135, 104, 169, 179, 59, 79, 96, 132,172, 12, 74, 22, 56, 111, 165, 5, 11, 68, 140, 30, 161, 160, 138, 73,64, 26, 151, 177, 72, 23, 66, 48, 119, 60, 67, 18, 89, 50, 122, 24, 37,81, 34, 31, 152, 156, 10, 98, 120, 141, 157, 7, 95, 112, 108, 116, 4,155, 139, 8, 63, 123, 137, 17, 131, 128, 45, 114, 148, 3, 44, 103, 69,70, 153, 2, 57, 25, 121, 107, 170, and 14.

FIG. 266 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 13/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 266, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 146, 91, 63, 144, 46, 12, 58, 137, 25, 79,70, 33, 134, 148, 66, 38, 163, 118, 139, 130, 72, 92, 160, 23, 133, 153,128, 86, 152, 106, 53, 93, 61, 5, 158, 172, 121, 135, 44, 149, 168, 0,124, 143, 27, 30, 151, 114, 113, 43, 138, 89, 159, 17, 120, 136, 102,81, 170, 176, 142, 104, 21, 78, 155, 8, 52, 95, 62, 40, 174, 6, 131, 48,18, 1, 179, 34, 123, 77, 26, 84, 157, 85, 56, 147, 67, 76, 162, 10, 51,103, 140, 87, 175, 115, 4, 101, 69, 80, 169, 75, 49, 97, 154, 83, 14, 2,132, 96, 16, 37, 166, 109, 54, 42, 28, 32, 171, 119, 55, 94, 65, 20,165, 3, 47, 90, 117, 88, 177, 11, 59, 68, 73, 41, 150, 111, 127, 100,110, 31, 167, 13, 122, 145, 71, 22, 173, 116, 126, 141, 29, 39, 178, 57,125, 36, 19, 7, 156, 107, 9, 98, 74, 45, 161, 112, 50, 99, 24, 35, 164,64, 129, 15, 60, 82, 108, and 105.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 266, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 146, 58, 134, 139, 133, 53, 121, 124, 113,120, 142, 52, 131, 123, 56, 51, 4, 49, 132, 54, 55, 47, 59, 127, 122,126, 125, 9, 50, 129, 91, 137, 148, 130, 153, 93, 135, 143, 43, 136,104, 95, 48, 77, 147, 103, 101, 97, 96, 42, 94, 90, 68, 100, 145, 141,36, 98, 99, 15, 63, 25, 66, 72, 128, 61, 44, 27, 138, 102, 21, 62, 18,26, 67, 140, 69, 154, 16, 28, 65, 117, 73, 110, 71, 29, 19, 74, 24, 60,144, 79, 38, 92, 86, 5, 149, 30, 89, 81, 78, 40, 1, 84, 76, 87, 80, 83,37, 32, 20, 88, 41, 31, 22, 39, 7, 45, 35, 82, 46, 70, 163, 160, 152,158, 168, 151, 159, 170, 155, 174, 179, 157, 162, 175, 169, 14, 166,171, 165, 177, 150, 167, 173, 178, 156, 161, 164, 108, 12, 33, 118, 23,106, 172, 0, 114, 17, 176, 8, 6, 34, 85, 10, 115, 75, 2, 109, 119, 3,11, 111, 13, 116, 57, 107, 112, 64, and 105.

FIG. 267 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 2/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 267, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 112, 78, 104, 6, 59, 80, 49, 120, 114, 27,113, 3, 109, 44, 69, 164, 91, 137, 39, 31, 21, 127, 151, 8, 47, 176,117, 68, 122, 148, 79, 73, 7, 166, 51, 50, 116, 66, 152, 61, 29, 107,22, 154, 118, 94, 24, 35, 55, 38, 88, 54, 2, 15, 19, 67, 101, 74, 169,138, 41, 162, 175, 136, 62, 161, 121, 163, 115, 135, 123, 25, 140, 156,58, 33, 119, 111, 146, 129, 150, 147, 97, 18, 60, 4, 81, 168, 43, 105,36, 65, 13, 5, 108, 145, 23, 70, 20, 173, 159, 100, 128, 172, 170, 1,37, 83, 102, 103, 157, 139, 179, 32, 144, 92, 131, 75, 155, 14, 9, 149,63, 11, 134, 53, 99, 17, 57, 90, 30, 98, 64, 40, 87, 158, 77, 93, 124,46, 171, 141, 133, 85, 177, 132, 26, 160, 42, 34, 82, 96, 48, 10, 142,125, 178, 153, 72, 45, 89, 52, 28, 126, 143, 167, 76, 86, 130, 110, 174,16, 165, 56, 84, 95, 0, 106, 12, and 71.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 267, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 112, 151, 118, 121, 43, 157, 64, 142, 78,8, 94, 163, 105, 139, 40, 125, 104, 47, 24, 115, 36, 179, 87, 178, 6,176, 35, 135, 65, 32, 158, 153, 59, 117, 55, 123, 13, 144, 77, 72, 80,68, 38, 25, 5, 92, 93, 45, 49, 122, 88, 140, 108, 131, 124, 89, 120,148, 54, 156, 145, 75, 46, 52, 114, 79, 2, 58, 23, 155, 171, 28, 27, 73,15, 33, 70, 14, 141, 126, 113, 7, 19, 119, 20, 9, 133, 143, 3, 166, 67,111, 173, 149, 85, 167, 109, 51, 101, 146, 159, 63, 177, 76, 44, 50, 74,129, 100, 11, 132, 86, 69, 116, 169, 150, 128, 134, 26, 130, 164, 66,138, 147, 172, 53, 160, 110, 91, 152, 41, 97, 170, 99, 42, 174, 137, 61,162, 18, 1, 17, 34, 16, 39, 29, 175, 60, 37, 57, 82, 165, 31, 107, 136,4, 83, 90, 96, 56, 21, 22, 62, 81, 102, 30, 48, 84, 127, 154, 161, 168,103, 98, 10, 95, 0, 106, 12, and 71.

FIG. 268 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 3/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 268, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 136, 28, 85, 38, 40, 89, 133, 117, 3, 58,154, 77, 14, 179, 96, 101, 26, 169, 37, 83, 162, 165, 24, 66, 109, 126,10, 155, 70, 157, 105, 175, 67, 158, 32, 42, 147, 140, 30, 7, 92, 59,119, 56, 0, 5, 90, 174, 13, 47, 76, 88, 86, 108, 27, 18, 12, 8, 61, 145,75, 125, 112, 69, 120, 137, 116, 20, 178, 98, 176, 29, 68, 168, 124, 21,35, 150, 131, 159, 163, 84, 23, 123, 65, 103, 93, 99, 102, 31, 64, 74,46, 94, 80, 129, 142, 128, 148, 111, 134, 173, 60, 118, 2, 170, 135, 1,115, 143, 95, 177, 73, 43, 11, 114, 91, 78, 107, 172, 25, 36, 164, 149,153, 110, 44, 146, 82, 127, 45, 33, 50, 41, 52, 156, 34, 4, 79, 141,138, 122, 53, 160, 81, 16, 100, 130, 71, 121, 132, 9, 22, 113, 6, 152,15, 171, 17, 57, 49, 151, 161, 63, 55, 139, 166, 97, 19, 51, 72, 167,106, 48, 144, 87, 104, 62, 54, and 39.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 268, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 136, 24, 0, 116, 102, 95, 50, 6, 28, 66,5, 20, 31, 177, 41, 152, 85, 109, 90, 178, 64, 73, 52, 15, 38, 126, 174,98, 74, 43, 156, 171, 40, 10, 13, 176, 46, 11, 34, 17, 89, 155, 47, 29,94, 114, 4, 57, 133, 70, 76, 68, 80, 91, 79, 49, 117, 157, 88, 168, 129,78, 141, 151, 3, 105, 86, 124, 142, 107, 138, 161, 58, 175, 108, 21,128, 172, 122, 63, 154, 67, 27, 35, 148, 25, 53, 55, 77, 158, 18, 150,111, 36, 160, 139, 14, 32, 12, 131, 134, 164, 81, 166, 179, 42, 8, 159,173, 149, 16, 97, 96, 147, 61, 163, 60, 153, 100, 19, 101, 140, 145, 84,118, 110, 130, 51, 26, 30, 75, 23, 2, 44, 71, 72, 169, 7, 125, 123, 170,146, 121, 167, 37, 92, 112, 65, 135, 82, 132, 106, 83, 59, 69, 103, 1,127, 9, 48, 162, 119, 120, 93, 115, 45, 22, 144, 165, 56, 137, 99, 143,33, 113, 87, 104, 62, 54, and 39.

FIG. 269 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 4/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 269, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 13, 121, 137, 29, 27, 1, 70, 116, 35, 132,109, 51, 55, 58, 11, 67, 136, 25, 145, 7, 75, 107, 45, 21, 127, 52, 90,22, 100, 123, 69, 112, 155, 92, 151, 59, 5, 179, 44, 87, 56, 139, 65,170, 46, 0, 124, 78, 166, 8, 61, 97, 120, 103, 4, 19, 64, 79, 28, 134,93, 86, 60, 135, 126, 53, 63, 14, 122, 17, 150, 76, 42, 39, 23, 153, 95,66, 50, 141, 176, 34, 161, 26, 106, 10, 43, 85, 131, 2, 147, 148, 144,54, 115, 146, 101, 172, 114, 119, 3, 96, 133, 99, 167, 164, 9, 142, 68,149, 94, 83, 16, 175, 73, 38, 143, 159, 130, 84, 169, 18, 138, 102, 72,47, 32, 160, 82, 81, 168, 30, 12, 173, 156, 158, 125, 98, 62, 178, 48,163, 117, 110, 91, 37, 80, 105, 31, 174, 111, 49, 113, 108, 74, 157,128, 24, 118, 40, 88, 177, 154, 6, 162, 129, 77, 36, 165, 20, 89, 140,15, 33, 104, 152, 71, 171, 57, and 41.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 269, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 13, 45, 46, 63, 131, 94, 12, 74, 121, 21,0, 14, 2, 83, 173, 157, 137, 127, 124, 122, 147, 16, 156, 128, 29, 52,78, 17, 148, 175, 158, 24, 27, 90, 166, 150, 144, 73, 125, 118, 1, 22,8, 76, 54, 38, 98, 40, 70, 100, 61, 42, 115, 143, 62, 88, 116, 123, 97,39, 146, 159, 178, 177, 35, 69, 120, 23, 101, 130, 48, 154, 132, 112,103, 153, 172, 84, 163, 6, 109, 155, 4, 95, 114, 169, 117, 162, 51, 92,19, 66, 119, 18, 110, 129, 55, 151, 64, 50, 3, 138, 91, 77, 58, 59, 79,141, 96, 102, 37, 36, 11, 5, 28, 176, 133, 72, 80, 165, 67, 179, 134,34, 99, 47, 105, 20, 136, 44, 93, 161, 167, 32, 31, 89, 25, 87, 86, 26,164, 160, 174, 140, 145, 56, 60, 106, 9, 82, 111, 15, 7, 139, 135, 10,142, 81, 49, 33, 75, 65, 126, 43, 68, 168, 113, 104, 107, 170, 53, 85,149, 30, 108, 152, 71, 171, 57, and 41.

FIG. 270 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 5/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 270, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 39, 45, 128, 84, 143, 148, 2, 75, 43, 50,130, 87, 137, 151, 7, 71, 55, 51, 133, 90, 140, 149, 6, 177, 37, 124,99, 83, 23, 159, 0, 176, 41, 121, 96, 89, 30, 161, 18, 172, 60, 49, 134,104, 139, 166, 14, 179, 62, 48, 129, 105, 146, 160, 16, 174, 33, 54,132, 112, 145, 150, 9, 77, 34, 117, 92, 82, 136, 165, 4, 67, 36, 44,101, 81, 141, 156, 3, 175, 58, 47, 91, 102, 32, 158, 13, 178, 63, 118,100, 85, 26, 167, 1, 173, 38, 116, 131, 107, 138, 162, 8, 72, 42, 115,98, 108, 24, 152, 17, 171, 64, 123, 94, 110, 28, 147, 19, 169, 61, 46,97, 106, 144, 164, 5, 70, 59, 53, 127, 88, 31, 153, 10, 73, 66, 119,126, 111, 29, 155, 15, 170, 57, 120, 125, 80, 142, 168, 11, 68, 56, 52,95, 103, 27, 154, 21, 78, 40, 122, 93, 86, 25, 163, 20, 79, 35, 114,135, 109, 22, 157, 12, 69, 65, 74, 76, and 113.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 270, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 39, 43, 55, 37, 41, 60, 62, 33, 34, 36,58, 63, 38, 42, 64, 61, 59, 66, 57, 56, 40, 35, 45, 50, 51, 124, 121,49, 48, 54, 117, 44, 47, 118, 116, 115, 123, 46, 53, 119, 120, 52, 122,114, 128, 130, 133, 99, 96, 134, 129, 132, 92, 101, 91, 100, 131, 98,94, 97, 127, 126, 125, 95, 93, 135, 84, 87, 90, 83, 89, 104, 105, 112,82, 81, 102, 85, 107, 108, 110, 106, 88, 111, 80, 103, 86, 109, 143,137, 140, 23, 30, 139, 146, 145, 136, 141, 32, 26, 138, 24, 28, 144, 31,29, 142, 27, 25, 22, 148, 151, 149, 159, 161, 166, 160, 150, 165, 156,158, 167, 162, 152, 147, 164, 153, 155, 168, 154, 163, 157, 2, 7, 6, 0,18, 14, 16, 9, 4, 3, 13, 1, 8, 17, 19, 5, 10, 15, 11, 21, 20, 12, 75,71, 177, 176, 172, 179, 174, 77, 67, 175, 178, 173, 72, 171, 169, 70,73, 170, 68, 78, 79, 69, 65, 74, 76, and 113.

FIG. 271 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 6/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 271, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 99, 100, 15, 107, 54, 76, 153, 174, 61, 0,36, 71, 62, 137, 108, 114, 65, 98, 151, 19, 112, 109, 152, 117, 35, 93,43, 90, 154, 73, 150, 165, 23, 16, 91, 5, 169, 175, 120, 149, 26, 59,49, 56, 156, 136, 110, 80, 58, 55, 40, 103, 159, 83, 127, 111, 155, 167,11, 52, 116, 142, 133, 1, 2, 96, 77, 86, 122, 6, 131, 29, 51, 21, 17,45, 126, 12, 3, 168, 41, 30, 37, 64, 164, 78, 8, 118, 113, 39, 48, 140,14, 60, 82, 134, 25, 33, 50, 84, 28, 105, 123, 145, 7, 27, 34, 92, 115,147, 74, 10, 68, 102, 67, 63, 101, 18, 66, 129, 24, 4, 119, 87, 42, 170,143, 121, 38, 57, 95, 148, 89, 81, 158, 171, 32, 22, 69, 53, 130, 104,161, 75, 141, 9, 47, 79, 162, 146, 124, 157, 70, 106, 31, 132, 166, 128,138, 125, 44, 13, 85, 88, 135, 144, 173, 163, 20, 46, 97, 94, 139, 172,72, 160, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 271, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 99, 61, 65, 35, 23, 26, 58, 155, 2, 51,41, 113, 25, 7, 68, 24, 38, 32, 141, 70, 44, 20, 100, 0, 98, 93, 16, 59,55, 167, 96, 21, 30, 39, 33, 27, 102, 4, 57, 22, 9, 106, 13, 46, 15, 36,151, 43, 91, 49, 40, 11, 77, 17, 37, 48, 50, 34, 67, 119, 95, 69, 47,31, 85, 97, 107, 71, 19, 90, 5, 56, 103, 52, 86, 45, 64, 140, 84, 92,63, 87, 148, 53, 79, 132, 88, 94, 54, 62, 112, 154, 169, 156, 159, 116,122, 126, 164, 14, 28, 115, 101, 42, 89, 130, 162, 166, 135, 139, 76,137, 109, 73, 175, 136, 83, 142, 6, 12, 78, 60, 105, 147, 18, 170, 81,104, 146, 128, 144, 172, 153, 108, 152, 150, 120, 110, 127, 133, 131, 3,8, 82, 123, 74, 66, 143, 158, 161, 124, 138, 173, 72, 174, 114, 117,165, 149, 80, 111, 1, 29, 168, 118, 134, 145, 10, 129, 121, 171, 75,157, 125, 163, 160, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 272 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 7/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 272, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 24, 157, 0, 43, 126, 172, 135, 65, 32, 18,114, 42, 162, 67, 104, 61, 23, 11, 4, 96, 163, 75, 109, 58, 79, 154, 3,95, 168, 73, 103, 60, 84, 148, 113, 40, 164, 173, 143, 49, 29, 156, 7,89, 132, 179, 138, 53, 85, 12, 117, 36, 122, 66, 107, 64, 28, 147, 2,90, 131, 70, 144, 55, 26, 15, 112, 35, 128, 176, 106, 59, 80, 19, 6, 92,129, 174, 99, 62, 82, 13, 121, 41, 127, 71, 139, 63, 25, 151, 9, 39,159, 69, 142, 52, 77, 21, 119, 38, 167, 178, 101, 56, 87, 155, 5, 91,166, 169, 146, 50, 81, 20, 111, 88, 165, 177, 108, 47, 27, 149, 115, 33,161, 72, 102, 57, 86, 16, 110, 97, 123, 68, 100, 48, 31, 14, 8, 93, 130,170, 133, 44, 78, 150, 118, 94, 158, 76, 134, 46, 83, 152, 1, 37, 160,171, 136, 54, 22, 17, 116, 34, 125, 175, 105, 45, 30, 153, 10, 98, 124,74, 137, 51, 120, 141, 140, and 145.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 272, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 24, 32, 23, 79, 84, 29, 85, 28, 26, 80,82, 25, 77, 87, 81, 27, 86, 31, 78, 83, 22, 30, 157, 18, 11, 154, 148,156, 12, 147, 15, 19, 13, 151, 21, 155, 20, 149, 16, 14, 150, 152, 17,153, 0, 114, 4, 3, 113, 7, 117, 2, 112, 6, 121, 9, 119, 5, 111, 115,110, 8, 118, 1, 116, 10, 43, 42, 96, 95, 40, 89, 36, 90, 35, 92, 41, 39,38, 91, 88, 33, 97, 93, 94, 37, 34, 98, 126, 162, 163, 168, 164, 132,122, 131, 128, 129, 127, 159, 167, 166, 165, 161, 123, 130, 158, 160,125, 124, 172, 67, 75, 73, 173, 179, 66, 70, 176, 174, 71, 69, 178, 169,177, 72, 68, 170, 76, 171, 175, 74, 135, 104, 109, 103, 143, 138, 107,144, 106, 99, 139, 142, 101, 146, 108, 102, 100, 133, 134, 136, 105,137, 65, 61, 58, 60, 49, 53, 64, 55, 59, 62, 63, 52, 56, 50, 47, 57, 48,44, 46, 54, 45, 51, 120, 141, 140, and 145.

FIG. 273 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 8/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 273, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 85, 3, 148, 161, 96, 99, 154, 13, 78, 160,61, 36, 21, 141, 121, 115, 82, 1, 59, 72, 43, 135, 168, 139, 46, 10, 56,67, 108, 134, 111, 105, 66, 89, 137, 130, 104, 143, 113, 11, 84, 157,32, 73, 90, 38, 117, 146, 53, 2, 60, 93, 91, 71, 114, 19, 47, 4, 26, 75,109, 41, 50, 153, 54, 163, 31, 24, 106, 42, 170, 62, 80, 164, 65, 128,12, 142, 167, 155, 88, 8, 22, 131, 158, 33, 178, 145, 70, 9, 51, 69,102, 140, 173, 147, 83, 165, 30, 126, 100, 138, 171, 103, 45, 159, 27,74, 97, 122, 120, 16, 52, 162, 132, 124, 94, 133, 172, 149, 86, 77, 25,68, 177, 64, 174, 15, 0, 125, 63, 35, 34, 40, 179, 20, 44, 7, 55, 28,101, 150, 110, 18, 119, 5, 29, 76, 107, 136, 112, 144, 48, 81, 57, 49,92, 95, 118, 17, 156, 166, 23, 129, 79, 37, 175, 152, 87, 6, 58, 127,98, 123, 39, 14, 116, 169, 176, and 151.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 273, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 85, 78, 82, 46, 66, 84, 53, 47, 54, 80,88, 70, 83, 45, 52, 86, 0, 44, 119, 48, 156, 87, 3, 160, 1, 10, 89, 157,2, 4, 163, 164, 8, 9, 165, 159, 162, 77, 125, 7, 5, 81, 166, 6, 148, 61,59, 56, 137, 32, 60, 26, 31, 65, 22, 51, 30, 27, 132, 25, 63, 55, 29,57, 23, 58, 161, 36, 72, 67, 130, 73, 93, 75, 24, 128, 131, 69, 126, 74,124, 68, 35, 28, 76, 49, 129, 127, 96, 21, 43, 108, 104, 90, 91, 109,106, 12, 158, 102, 100, 97, 94, 177, 34, 101, 107, 92, 79, 98, 99, 141,135, 134, 143, 38, 71, 41, 42, 142, 33, 140, 138, 122, 133, 64, 40, 150,136, 95, 37, 123, 154, 121, 168, 111, 113, 117, 114, 50, 170, 167, 178,173, 171, 120, 172, 174, 179, 110, 112, 118, 175, 39, 13, 115, 139, 105,11, 146, 19, 153, 62, 155, 145, 147, 103, 16, 149, 15, 20, 18, 144, 17,152, 14, 116, 169, 176, and 151.

FIG. 274 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 9/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 274, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 58, 70, 23, 32, 26, 63, 55, 48, 35, 41,53, 20, 38, 51, 61, 65, 44, 29, 7, 2, 113, 68, 96, 104, 106, 89, 27, 0,119, 21, 4, 49, 46, 100, 13, 36, 57, 98, 102, 9, 42, 39, 33, 62, 22, 95,101, 15, 91, 25, 93, 132, 69, 87, 47, 59, 67, 124, 17, 11, 31, 43, 40,37, 85, 50, 97, 140, 45, 92, 56, 30, 34, 60, 107, 24, 52, 94, 64, 5, 71,90, 66, 103, 88, 86, 84, 19, 169, 159, 147, 126, 28, 130, 14, 162, 144,166, 108, 153, 115, 135, 120, 122, 112, 139, 151, 156, 16, 172, 164,123, 99, 54, 136, 81, 105, 128, 116, 150, 155, 76, 18, 142, 170, 175,83, 146, 78, 109, 73, 131, 127, 82, 167, 77, 110, 79, 137, 152, 3, 173,148, 72, 158, 117, 1, 6, 12, 8, 161, 74, 143, 133, 168, 171, 134, 163,138, 121, 141, 160, 111, 10, 149, 80, 75, 165, 157, 174, 129, 145, 114,125, 154, 118, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 274, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 58, 96, 22, 97, 169, 164, 127, 168, 70,104, 95, 140, 159, 123, 82, 171, 23, 106, 101, 45, 147, 99, 167, 134,32, 89, 15, 92, 126, 54, 77, 163, 26, 27, 91, 56, 28, 136, 110, 138, 63,0, 25, 30, 130, 81, 79, 121, 55, 119, 93, 34, 14, 105, 137, 141, 48, 21,132, 60, 162, 128, 152, 160, 35, 4, 69, 107, 144, 116, 3, 111, 41, 49,87, 24, 166, 150, 173, 10, 53, 46, 47, 52, 108, 155, 148, 149, 20, 100,59, 94, 153, 76, 72, 80, 38, 13, 67, 64, 115, 18, 158, 75, 51, 36, 124,5, 135, 142, 117, 165, 61, 57, 17, 71, 120, 170, 1, 157, 65, 98, 11, 90,122, 175, 6, 174, 44, 102, 31, 66, 112, 83, 12, 129, 29, 9, 43, 103,139, 146, 8, 145, 7, 42, 40, 88, 151, 78, 161, 114, 2, 39, 37, 86, 156,109, 74, 125, 113, 33, 85, 84, 16, 73, 143, 154, 68, 62, 50, 19, 172,131, 133, 118, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 275 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 10/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 275, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 45, 31, 67, 35, 159, 157, 177, 2, 44, 23,73, 148, 163, 118, 176, 4, 14, 97, 142, 37, 143, 149, 179, 3, 12, 32,140, 42, 167, 166, 41, 126, 13, 30, 144, 57, 113, 147, 173, 6, 52, 24,39, 64, 80, 112, 104, 174, 11, 151, 71, 109, 162, 79, 171, 127, 46, 92,38, 132, 81, 120, 100, 1, 53, 88, 76, 60, 103, 139, 99, 125, 48, 93,135, 161, 77, 110, 107, 121, 18, 95, 69, 63, 83, 111, 170, 7, 16, 98,141, 61, 86, 116, 172, 130, 49, 25, 40, 65, 87, 108, 101, 5, 21, 89, 75,43, 82, 146, 105, 128, 17, 29, 106, 34, 160, 155, 175, 124, 15, 28, 134,62, 119, 145, 72, 10, 58, 91, 74, 36, 68, 150, 8, 9, 54, 26, 137, 56,165, 115, 114, 0, 47, 27, 22, 20, 168, 154, 102, 123, 50, 94, 66, 33,85, 59, 164, 131, 51, 90, 70, 138, 84, 117, 178, 122, 19, 96, 156, 55,78, 158, 169, 129, 133, 152, 136, and 153.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 275, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 45, 44, 14, 12, 13, 52, 11, 46, 53, 48,18, 16, 49, 21, 17, 15, 58, 54, 47, 50, 51, 19, 31, 23, 97, 32, 30, 24,151, 92, 88, 93, 95, 98, 25, 89, 29, 28, 91, 26, 27, 94, 90, 96, 67, 73,142, 140, 144, 39, 71, 38, 76, 135, 69, 141, 40, 75, 106, 134, 74, 137,22, 66, 70, 156, 35, 148, 37, 42, 57, 64, 109, 132, 60, 161, 63, 61, 65,43, 34, 62, 36, 56, 20, 33, 138, 55, 159, 163, 143, 167, 113, 80, 162,81, 103, 77, 83, 86, 87, 82, 160, 119, 68, 165, 168, 85, 84, 78, 157,118, 149, 166, 147, 112, 79, 120, 139, 110, 111, 116, 108, 146, 155,145, 150, 115, 154, 59, 117, 158, 177, 176, 179, 41, 173, 104, 171, 100,99, 107, 170, 172, 101, 105, 175, 72, 8, 114, 102, 164, 178, 169, 2, 4,3, 126, 6, 174, 127, 1, 125, 121, 7, 130, 5, 128, 124, 10, 9, 0, 123,131, 122, 129, 133, 152, 136, and 153.

FIG. 276 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 11/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 276, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 27, 68, 35, 117, 138, 83, 127, 10, 60, 73,47, 115, 155, 81, 170, 9, 65, 66, 52, 112, 150, 77, 171, 161, 22, 20,39, 106, 147, 90, 126, 165, 23, 16, 45, 113, 154, 86, 173, 158, 24, 71,40, 107, 136, 94, 128, 163, 31, 72, 33, 101, 134, 80, 175, 7, 61, 19,49, 111, 135, 92, 130, 6, 62, 74, 43, 116, 133, 89, 129, 8, 28, 15, 34,105, 146, 84, 174, 4, 32, 75, 44, 118, 132, 96, 169, 159, 58, 18, 42,100, 141, 87, 131, 157, 63, 11, 48, 108, 151, 79, 177, 168, 26, 17, 36,102, 137, 95, 122, 1, 25, 21, 50, 120, 153, 97, 121, 0, 55, 14, 46, 114,152, 91, 178, 3, 30, 13, 37, 103, 145, 82, 125, 166, 57, 76, 51, 99,144, 85, 123, 162, 56, 12, 53, 119, 139, 78, 179, 5, 64, 70, 54, 110,148, 93, 172, 164, 29, 69, 38, 109, 143, 88, 124, 160, 59, 67, 41, 104,149, 98, 176, 2, 167, 156, 140, and 142.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 276, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 27, 60, 65, 22, 23, 24, 31, 61, 62, 28,32, 58, 63, 26, 25, 55, 30, 57, 56, 64, 29, 59, 68, 73, 66, 20, 16, 71,72, 19, 74, 15, 75, 18, 11, 17, 21, 14, 13, 76, 12, 70, 69, 67, 35, 47,52, 39, 45, 40, 33, 49, 43, 34, 44, 42, 48, 36, 50, 46, 37, 51, 53, 54,38, 41, 117, 115, 112, 106, 113, 107, 101, 111, 116, 105, 118, 100, 108,102, 120, 114, 103, 99, 119, 110, 109, 104, 138, 155, 150, 147, 154,136, 134, 135, 133, 146, 132, 141, 151, 137, 153, 152, 145, 144, 139,148, 143, 149, 83, 81, 77, 90, 86, 94, 80, 92, 89, 84, 96, 87, 79, 95,97, 91, 82, 85, 78, 93, 88, 98, 127, 170, 171, 126, 173, 128, 175, 130,129, 174, 169, 131, 177, 122, 121, 178, 125, 123, 179, 172, 124, 176,10, 9, 161, 165, 158, 163, 7, 6, 8, 4, 159, 157, 168, 1, 0, 3, 166, 162,5, 164, 160, 2, 167, 156, 140, and 142.

FIG. 277 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 12/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 277, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 51, 122, 91, 111, 95, 100, 119, 130, 78,57, 65, 26, 61, 126, 105, 143, 70, 132, 39, 102, 115, 116, 6, 14, 3, 21,71, 134, 2, 0, 140, 106, 7, 118, 23, 35, 20, 17, 50, 48, 112, 13, 66, 5,75, 42, 129, 107, 30, 45, 137, 114, 37, 87, 53, 85, 101, 141, 120, 99,88, 117, 64, 28, 135, 138, 108, 113, 58, 97, 38, 124, 86, 33, 74, 32,29, 128, 67, 104, 80, 127, 56, 34, 89, 94, 49, 55, 93, 136, 68, 62, 54,40, 81, 103, 121, 76, 44, 84, 96, 123, 154, 98, 82, 142, 46, 169, 131,72, 47, 69, 125, 31, 83, 36, 59, 90, 79, 52, 133, 60, 92, 139, 110, 27,73, 43, 77, 109, 63, 41, 168, 147, 161, 165, 175, 162, 164, 158, 157,160, 150, 171, 167, 145, 151, 153, 9, 155, 170, 146, 166, 149, 15, 159,11, 176, 152, 156, 144, 148, 172, 178, 24, 22, 179, 4, 163, 174, 173,19, 10, 177, 12, 16, 1, 8, 18, and 25.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 277, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 51, 6, 75, 108, 93, 47, 168, 15, 122, 14,42, 113, 136, 69, 147, 159, 91, 3, 129, 58, 68, 125, 161, 11, 111, 21,107, 97, 62, 31, 165, 176, 95, 71, 30, 38, 54, 83, 175, 152, 100, 134,45, 124, 40, 36, 162, 156, 119, 2, 137, 86, 81, 59, 164, 144, 130, 0,114, 33, 103, 90, 158, 148, 78, 140, 37, 74, 121, 79, 157, 172, 57, 106,87, 32, 76, 52, 160, 178, 65, 7, 53, 29, 44, 133, 150, 24, 26, 118, 85,128, 84, 60, 171, 22, 61, 23, 101, 67, 96, 92, 167, 179, 126, 35, 141,104, 123, 139, 145, 4, 105, 20, 120, 80, 154, 110, 151, 163, 143, 17,99, 127, 98, 27, 153, 174, 70, 50, 88, 56, 82, 73, 9, 173, 132, 48, 117,34, 142, 43, 155, 19, 39, 112, 64, 89, 46, 77, 170, 10, 102, 13, 28, 94,169, 109, 146, 177, 115, 66, 135, 49, 131, 63, 166, 12, 116, 5, 138, 55,72, 41, 149, 16, 1, 8, 18, and 25.

FIG. 278 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 13/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 278, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 59, 85, 108, 128, 49, 91, 163, 3, 58, 16,106, 126, 74, 141, 167, 35, 57, 82, 30, 123, 68, 95, 160, 42, 62, 21,102, 131, 52, 142, 157, 10, 55, 79, 24, 130, 73, 92, 179, 2, 61, 11,104, 122, 45, 140, 159, 43, 148, 19, 23, 111, 76, 135, 169, 39, 63, 77,25, 117, 75, 94, 155, 5, 145, 14, 26, 127, 46, 138, 158, 38, 64, 86,105, 118, 50, 137, 175, 7, 144, 84, 22, 113, 54, 98, 172, 9, 146, 17,27, 114, 51, 139, 156, 37, 147, 78, 103, 115, 66, 97, 168, 34, 60, 83,107, 121, 48, 93, 174, 33, 65, 87, 99, 124, 71, 136, 154, 0, 150, 20,101, 112, 70, 96, 170, 1, 149, 80, 28, 125, 53, 90, 173, 6, 153, 13, 29,116, 72, 88, 165, 8, 143, 12, 31, 119, 47, 89, 164, 40, 151, 81, 109,110, 44, 134, 162, 36, 152, 15, 100, 129, 67, 133, 166, 41, 56, 18, 32,120, 69, 132, 161, 4, 177, 176, 178, and 171.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 278, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 59, 58, 57, 62, 55, 61, 148, 63, 145, 64,144, 146, 147, 60, 65, 150, 149, 153, 143, 151, 152, 56, 85, 16, 82, 21,79, 11, 19, 77, 14, 86, 84, 17, 78, 83, 87, 20, 80, 13, 12, 81, 15, 18,108, 106, 30, 102, 24, 104, 23, 25, 26, 105, 22, 27, 103, 107, 99, 101,28, 29, 31, 109, 100, 32, 128, 126, 123, 131, 130, 122, 111, 117, 127,118, 113, 114, 115, 121, 124, 112, 125, 116, 119, 110, 129, 120, 49, 74,68, 52, 73, 45, 76, 75, 46, 50, 54, 51, 66, 48, 71, 70, 53, 72, 47, 44,67, 69, 91, 141, 95, 142, 92, 140, 135, 94, 138, 137, 98, 139, 97, 93,136, 96, 90, 88, 89, 134, 133, 132, 163, 167, 160, 157, 179, 159, 169,155, 158, 175, 172, 156, 168, 174, 154, 170, 173, 165, 164, 162, 166,161, 3, 35, 42, 10, 2, 43, 39, 5, 38, 7, 9, 37, 34, 33, 0, 1, 6, 8, 40,36, 41, 4, 177, 176, 178, and 171.

FIG. 279 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 2/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 279, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 157, 25, 107, 160, 37, 138, 111, 35, 29,44, 15, 162, 66, 20, 49, 126, 89, 147, 159, 174, 142, 26, 146, 10, 164,152, 57, 110, 83, 167, 169, 16, 6, 172, 62, 173, 7, 145, 4, 67, 115, 50,39, 72, 79, 74, 40, 132, 42, 30, 163, 161, 55, 143, 63, 117, 86, 121, 2,28, 69, 150, 24, 177, 43, 158, 27, 21, 128, 46, 118, 114, 127, 135, 92,76, 19, 94, 179, 3, 52, 101, 137, 84, 73, 108, 91, 120, 47, 1, 102, 58,68, 82, 59, 119, 64, 31, 61, 105, 103, 151, 124, 70, 8, 155, 90, 166,41, 45, 178, 113, 140, 75, 148, 109, 100, 125, 11, 116, 34, 36, 176,170, 156, 136, 171, 122, 78, 87, 106, 123, 149, 17, 99, 175, 18, 9, 165,153, 12, 81, 77, 60, 93, 104, 13, 5, 88, 96, 141, 133, 154, 144, 48, 97,23, 14, 98, 53, 134, 112, 65, 0, 130, 32, 168, 33, 131, 22, 38, 56, 80,95, 71, 85, 139, 129, 51, and 54.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 279, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 157, 159, 7, 63, 127, 102, 41, 171, 93,65, 25, 174, 145, 117, 135, 58, 45, 122, 104, 0, 107, 142, 4, 86, 92,68, 178, 78, 13, 130, 160, 26, 67, 121, 76, 82, 113, 87, 5, 32, 37, 146,115, 2, 19, 59, 140, 106, 88, 168, 138, 10, 50, 28, 94, 119, 75, 123,96, 33, 111, 164, 39, 69, 179, 64, 148, 149, 141, 131, 35, 152, 72, 150,3, 31, 109, 17, 133, 22, 29, 57, 79, 24, 52, 61, 100, 99, 154, 38, 44,110, 74, 177, 101, 105, 125, 175, 144, 56, 15, 83, 40, 43, 137, 103, 11,18, 48, 80, 162, 167, 132, 158, 84, 151, 116, 9, 97, 95, 66, 169, 42,27, 73, 124, 34, 165, 23, 71, 20, 16, 30, 21, 108, 70, 36, 153, 14, 85,49, 6, 163, 128, 91, 8, 176, 12, 98, 139, 126, 172, 161, 46, 120, 155,170, 81, 53, 129, 89, 62, 55, 118, 47, 90, 156, 77, 134, 51, 147, 173,143, 114, 1, 166, 136, 60, 112, and 54.

FIG. 280 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 3/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 280, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 113, 153, 13, 8, 103, 115, 137, 69, 151,111, 18, 38, 42, 150, 179, 130, 148, 6, 4, 31, 44, 68, 145, 126, 106,24, 100, 93, 21, 35, 143, 57, 166, 65, 53, 41, 122, 7, 29, 25, 136, 162,158, 26, 124, 32, 17, 168, 56, 12, 39, 176, 131, 132, 51, 89, 101, 160,49, 87, 14, 55, 127, 37, 169, 110, 83, 134, 107, 46, 33, 114, 108, 82,125, 109, 95, 174, 62, 164, 144, 16, 121, 58, 80, 2, 163, 159, 157, 90,104, 23, 172, 112, 19, 133, 102, 75, 45, 86, 63, 22, 54, 105, 155, 77,178, 70, 98, 40, 118, 84, 78, 0, 99, 123, 5, 34, 71, 96, 175, 10, 30,72, 28, 74, 154, 61, 91, 85, 135, 152, 15, 88, 165, 60, 52, 149, 147,59, 116, 120, 3, 64, 140, 67, 94, 27, 9, 81, 43, 11, 167, 139, 92, 129,20, 117, 128, 50, 119, 47, 1, 156, 142, 170, 171, 48, 177, 66, 161, 79,73, 76, 173, 97, 36, 141, 146, and 138.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 280, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 113, 4, 122, 51, 108, 104, 98, 154, 140,1, 153, 31, 7, 89, 82, 23, 40, 61, 67, 156, 13, 44, 29, 101, 125, 172,118, 91, 94, 142, 8, 68, 25, 160, 109, 112, 84, 85, 27, 170, 103, 145,136, 49, 95, 19, 78, 135, 9, 171, 115, 126, 162, 87, 174, 133, 0, 152,81, 48, 137, 106, 158, 14, 62, 102, 99, 15, 43, 177, 69, 24, 26, 55,164, 75, 123, 88, 11, 66, 151, 100, 124, 127, 144, 45, 5, 165, 167, 161,111, 93, 32, 37, 16, 86, 34, 60, 139, 79, 18, 21, 17, 169, 121, 63, 71,52, 92, 73, 38, 35, 168, 110, 58, 22, 96, 149, 129, 76, 42, 143, 56, 83,80, 54, 175, 147, 20, 173, 150, 57, 12, 134, 2, 105, 10, 59, 117, 97,179, 166, 39, 107, 163, 155, 30, 116, 128, 36, 130, 65, 176, 46, 159,77, 72, 120, 50, 141, 148, 53, 131, 33, 157, 178, 28, 3, 119, 146, 6,41, 132, 114, 90, 70, 74, 64, 47, and 138.

FIG. 281 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 4/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 281, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 114, 133, 4, 73, 8, 139, 7, 5, 177, 88,66, 11, 24, 74, 49, 45, 167, 81, 117, 137, 46, 22, 165, 51, 68, 110, 6,1, 16, 132, 130, 143, 169, 2, 20, 140, 94, 21, 91, 126, 172, 27, 162,34, 113, 142, 166, 115, 106, 160, 84, 136, 175, 0, 26, 151, 69, 174, 59,159, 161, 170, 52, 164, 80, 108, 3, 23, 101, 33, 125, 111, 63, 124, 98,40, 145, 9, 39, 155, 149, 147, 67, 76, 48, 120, 119, 53, 54, 138, 179,156, 127, 13, 152, 129, 123, 141, 109, 89, 121, 50, 10, 37, 104, 144,86, 178, 96, 148, 128, 56, 64, 153, 95, 12, 105, 41, 154, 99, 25, 171,92, 17, 134, 19, 61, 32, 85, 102, 14, 71, 146, 163, 173, 118, 57, 18,36, 42, 78, 31, 97, 55, 58, 116, 90, 168, 43, 72, 15, 112, 93, 60, 38,103, 87, 158, 35, 29, 176, 150, 77, 79, 122, 47, 28, 135, 100, 83, 65,131, 75, 157, 62, 70, 44, 30, 107, and 82.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 281, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 114, 117, 94, 26, 63, 179, 96, 61, 58, 77,133, 137, 21, 151, 124, 156, 148, 32, 116, 79, 4, 46, 91, 69, 98, 127,128, 85, 90, 122, 73, 22, 126, 174, 40, 13, 56, 102, 168, 47, 8, 165,172, 59, 145, 152, 64, 14, 43, 28, 139, 51, 27, 159, 9, 129, 153, 71,72, 135, 7, 68, 162, 161, 39, 123, 95, 146, 15, 100, 5, 110, 34, 170,155, 141, 12, 163, 112, 83, 177, 6, 113, 52, 149, 109, 105, 173, 93, 65,88, 1, 142, 164, 147, 89, 41, 118, 60, 131, 66, 16, 166, 80, 67, 121,154, 57, 38, 75, 11, 132, 115, 108, 76, 50, 99, 18, 103, 157, 24, 130,106, 3, 48, 10, 25, 36, 87, 62, 74, 143, 160, 23, 120, 37, 171, 42, 158,70, 49, 169, 84, 101, 119, 104, 92, 78, 35, 44, 45, 2, 136, 33, 53, 144,17, 31, 29, 30, 167, 20, 175, 125, 54, 86, 134, 97, 176, 107, 81, 140,0, 111, 138, 178, 19, 55, 150, and 82.

FIG. 282 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 5/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 282, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 128, 4, 162, 8, 77, 29, 91, 44, 176, 107,149, 1, 150, 9, 119, 99, 71, 124, 104, 41, 62, 5, 118, 50, 174, 54, 111,40, 156, 92, 46, 11, 17, 52, 47, 97, 179, 24, 153, 145, 129, 2, 12, 88,101, 139, 114, 69, 96, 32, 134, 55, 167, 132, 123, 136, 112, 102, 159,31, 87, 141, 15, 61, 84, 98, 37, 63, 20, 85, 53, 7, 39, 117, 170, 138,116, 126, 161, 120, 57, 13, 76, 6, 121, 155, 175, 38, 158, 35, 86, 78,10, 103, 166, 95, 125, 172, 67, 30, 177, 73, 151, 169, 163, 23, 108, 43,81, 157, 58, 105, 65, 26, 122, 135, 146, 72, 142, 34, 133, 0, 148, 89,168, 60, 109, 83, 18, 27, 131, 70, 56, 48, 64, 93, 68, 127, 21, 75, 110,80, 14, 49, 82, 143, 115, 178, 154, 100, 59, 74, 152, 51, 137, 140, 36,42, 19, 25, 94, 45, 164, 16, 113, 79, 22, 28, 66, 106, 130, 171, 147,90, 144, 165, 3, 173, 160, and 33.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 282, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 128, 149, 62, 46, 129, 134, 87, 53, 57,86, 177, 58, 133, 131, 110, 59, 94, 130, 4, 1, 5, 11, 2, 55, 141, 7, 13,78, 73, 105, 0, 70, 80, 74, 45, 171, 162, 150, 118, 17, 12, 167, 15, 39,76, 10, 151, 65, 148, 56, 14, 152, 164, 147, 8, 9, 50, 52, 88, 132, 61,117, 6, 103, 169, 26, 89, 48, 49, 51, 16, 90, 77, 119, 174, 47, 101,123, 84, 170, 121, 166, 163, 122, 168, 64, 82, 137, 113, 144, 29, 99,54, 97, 139, 136, 98, 138, 155, 95, 23, 135, 60, 93, 143, 140, 79, 165,91, 71, 111, 179, 114, 112, 37, 116, 175, 125, 108, 146, 109, 68, 115,36, 22, 3, 44, 124, 40, 24, 69, 102, 63, 126, 38, 172, 43, 72, 83, 127,178, 42, 28, 173, 176, 104, 156, 153, 96, 159, 20, 161, 158, 67, 81,142, 18, 21, 154, 19, 66, 160, 107, 41, 92, 145, 32, 31, 85, 120, 35,30, 157, 34, 27, 75, 100, 25, 106, and 33.

FIG. 283 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 6/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 283, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 66, 21, 51, 55, 54, 24, 33, 12, 70, 63,47, 65, 145, 8, 0, 57, 23, 71, 59, 14, 40, 42, 62, 56, 2, 43, 64, 58,67, 53, 68, 61, 39, 52, 69, 1, 22, 31, 161, 38, 30, 19, 17, 18, 4, 41,25, 44, 136, 29, 36, 26, 126, 177, 15, 37, 148, 9, 13, 45, 46, 152, 50,49, 27, 77, 60, 35, 48, 178, 28, 34, 106, 127, 76, 131, 105, 138, 75,130, 101, 167, 117, 173, 113, 108, 92, 135, 124, 121, 97, 149, 143, 81,32, 96, 3, 78, 107, 86, 98, 16, 162, 150, 111, 158, 172, 139, 74, 142,166, 7, 5, 119, 20, 144, 151, 90, 11, 156, 100, 175, 83, 155, 159, 128,88, 87, 93, 103, 94, 140, 165, 6, 137, 157, 10, 85, 141, 129, 146, 122,73, 112, 132, 125, 174, 169, 168, 79, 84, 118, 179, 147, 91, 160, 163,115, 89, 80, 102, 104, 134, 82, 95, 133, 164, 154, 120, 110, 170, 114,153, 72, 109, 171, 176, 99, 116, and 123.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 283, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 66, 59, 22, 15, 106, 97, 74, 88, 132, 134,21, 14, 31, 37, 127, 149, 142, 87, 125, 82, 51, 40, 161, 148, 76, 143,166, 93, 174, 95, 55, 42, 38, 9, 131, 81, 7, 103, 169, 133, 54, 62, 30,13, 105, 32, 5, 94, 168, 164, 24, 56, 19, 45, 138, 96, 119, 140, 79,154, 33, 2, 17, 46, 75, 3, 20, 165, 84, 120, 12, 43, 18, 152, 130, 78,144, 6, 118, 110, 70, 64, 4, 50, 101, 107, 151, 137, 179, 170, 63, 58,41, 49, 167, 86, 90, 157, 147, 114, 47, 67, 25, 27, 117, 98, 11, 10, 91,153, 65, 53, 44, 77, 173, 16, 156, 85, 160, 72, 145, 68, 136, 60, 113,162, 100, 141, 163, 109, 8, 61, 29, 35, 108, 150, 175, 129, 115, 171, 0,39, 36, 48, 92, 111, 83, 146, 89, 176, 57, 52, 26, 178, 135, 158, 155,122, 80, 99, 23, 69, 126, 28, 124, 172, 159, 73, 102, 116, 71, 1, 177,34, 121, 139, 128, 112, 104, and 123.

FIG. 284 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 7/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 284, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 117, 61, 46, 179, 24, 161, 142, 133, 11,6, 121, 44, 103, 76, 22, 63, 136, 151, 33, 8, 123, 60, 105, 175, 18,160, 138, 147, 10, 0, 125, 57, 49, 75, 21, 154, 140, 150, 9, 169, 124,55, 48, 173, 23, 157, 97, 129, 30, 7, 122, 54, 99, 74, 19, 153, 94, 128,15, 170, 87, 59, 51, 80, 111, 64, 137, 146, 13, 2, 83, 62, 45, 176, 108,71, 91, 131, 34, 168, 82, 56, 102, 72, 26, 155, 92, 132, 31, 166, 119,36, 101, 178, 113, 67, 98, 152, 14, 5, 118, 41, 104, 177, 114, 70, 96,134, 32, 162, 84, 40, 100, 174, 110, 158, 93, 149, 27, 4, 86, 38, 53,77, 115, 159, 143, 130, 35, 163, 89, 58, 106, 73, 20, 66, 90, 127, 16,3, 85, 37, 107, 172, 116, 156, 95, 144, 17, 165, 81, 43, 50, 78, 109,68, 135, 126, 29, 167, 120, 39, 47, 171, 112, 69, 141, 145, 28, 1, 88,42, 52, 79, 25, 65, 139, 148, 12, and 164.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 284, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 117, 121, 123, 125, 124, 122, 87, 83, 82,119, 118, 84, 86, 89, 85, 81, 120, 88, 61, 44, 60, 57, 55, 54, 59, 62,56, 36, 41, 40, 38, 58, 37, 43, 39, 42, 46, 103, 105, 49, 48, 99, 51,45, 102, 101, 104, 100, 53, 106, 107, 50, 47, 52, 179, 76, 175, 75, 173,74, 80, 176, 72, 178, 177, 174, 77, 73, 172, 78, 171, 79, 24, 22, 18,21, 23, 19, 111, 108, 26, 113, 114, 110, 115, 20, 116, 109, 112, 25,161, 63, 160, 154, 157, 153, 64, 71, 155, 67, 70, 158, 159, 66, 156, 68,69, 65, 142, 136, 138, 140, 97, 94, 137, 91, 92, 98, 96, 93, 143, 90,95, 135, 141, 139, 133, 151, 147, 150, 129, 128, 146, 131, 132, 152,134, 149, 130, 127, 144, 126, 145, 148, 11, 33, 10, 9, 30, 15, 13, 34,31, 14, 32, 27, 35, 16, 17, 29, 28, 12, 6, 8, 0, 169, 7, 170, 2, 168,166, 5, 162, 4, 163, 3, 165, 167, 1, and 164.

FIG. 285 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 8/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 285, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 77, 48, 82, 51, 57, 69, 65, 6, 71, 90, 84,81, 50, 88, 61, 55, 53, 73, 39, 13, 79, 75, 41, 18, 38, 89, 49, 93, 36,64, 47, 40, 42, 76, 70, 56, 3, 72, 2, 54, 52, 145, 19, 78, 80, 63, 87,67, 86, 10, 1, 58, 17, 14, 175, 91, 68, 85, 94, 15, 43, 74, 60, 66, 37,92, 4, 9, 16, 83, 46, 44, 102, 30, 112, 122, 110, 29, 20, 105, 138, 101,174, 33, 137, 136, 131, 166, 59, 34, 62, 125, 28, 26, 45, 24, 23, 21,157, 98, 35, 95, 22, 32, 103, 27, 113, 31, 119, 173, 168, 118, 120, 114,149, 159, 155, 179, 160, 161, 130, 123, 172, 139, 124, 153, 0, 109, 167,128, 107, 117, 147, 177, 96, 164, 152, 11, 148, 158, 129, 163, 176, 151,171, 8, 106, 144, 150, 169, 108, 162, 143, 111, 141, 133, 178, 134, 146,99, 132, 142, 104, 115, 135, 121, 100, 12, 170, 156, 126, 5, 127, 154,97, 140, 116, 165, 7, and 25.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 285, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 77, 39, 3, 175, 102, 62, 119, 0, 171, 104,48, 13, 72, 91, 30, 125, 173, 109, 8, 115, 82, 79, 2, 68, 112, 28, 168,167, 106, 135, 51, 75, 54, 85, 122, 26, 118, 128, 144, 121, 57, 41, 52,94, 110, 45, 120, 107, 150, 100, 69, 18, 145, 15, 29, 24, 114, 117, 169,12, 65, 38, 19, 43, 20, 23, 149, 147, 108, 170, 6, 89, 78, 74, 105, 21,159, 177, 162, 156, 71, 49, 80, 60, 138, 157, 155, 96, 143, 126, 90, 93,63, 66, 101, 98, 179, 164, 111, 5, 84, 36, 87, 37, 174, 35, 160, 152,141, 127, 81, 64, 67, 92, 33, 95, 161, 11, 133, 154, 50, 47, 86, 4, 137,22, 130, 148, 178, 97, 88, 40, 10, 9, 136, 32, 123, 158, 134, 140, 61,42, 1, 16, 131, 103, 172, 129, 146, 116, 55, 76, 58, 83, 166, 27, 139,163, 99, 165, 53, 70, 17, 46, 59, 113, 124, 176, 132, 7, 73, 56, 14, 44,34, 31, 153, 151, 142, and 25.

FIG. 286 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 9/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 286, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 42, 36, 135, 126, 3, 17, 82, 87, 172, 32,65, 70, 143, 131, 10, 1, 85, 147, 31, 176, 66, 47, 97, 128, 8, 9, 146,73, 162, 164, 57, 64, 139, 91, 5, 110, 150, 83, 18, 27, 48, 45, 133,132, 111, 124, 89, 78, 177, 19, 46, 50, 102, 103, 122, 4, 74, 161, 175,34, 60, 58, 136, 100, 115, 118, 81, 75, 28, 21, 40, 61, 140, 138, 113,112, 157, 151, 23, 30, 69, 41, 94, 96, 7, 109, 152, 149, 33, 179, 71,43, 92, 105, 12, 13, 154, 159, 178, 24, 44, 49, 107, 98, 16, 2, 76, 155,35, 168, 62, 56, 129, 141, 116, 123, 160, 77, 25, 170, 54, 39, 90, 95,121, 11, 72, 153, 169, 167, 51, 67, 104, 134, 0, 117, 79, 80, 26, 29,37, 55, 99, 142, 108, 114, 86, 88, 166, 163, 59, 63, 101, 93, 119, 15,144, 145, 165, 22, 52, 53, 130, 137, 125, 6, 158, 84, 20, 174, 38, 68,127, 106, 14, 120, 148, 156, 171, and 173.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 286, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 42, 65, 66, 57, 48, 46, 60, 40, 69, 71,44, 62, 54, 51, 37, 59, 52, 38, 36, 70, 47, 64, 45, 50, 58, 61, 41, 43,49, 56, 39, 67, 55, 63, 53, 68, 135, 143, 97, 139, 133, 102, 136, 140,94, 92, 107, 129, 90, 104, 99, 101, 130, 127, 126, 131, 128, 91, 132,103, 100, 138, 96, 105, 98, 141, 95, 134, 142, 93, 137, 106, 3, 10, 8,5, 111, 122, 115, 113, 7, 12, 16, 116, 121, 0, 108, 119, 125, 14, 17, 1,9, 110, 124, 4, 118, 112, 109, 13, 2, 123, 11, 117, 114, 15, 6, 120, 82,85, 146, 150, 89, 74, 81, 157, 152, 154, 76, 160, 72, 79, 86, 144, 158,148, 87, 147, 73, 83, 78, 161, 75, 151, 149, 159, 155, 77, 153, 80, 88,145, 84, 156, 172, 31, 162, 18, 177, 175, 28, 23, 33, 178, 35, 25, 169,26, 166, 165, 20, 171, 32, 176, 164, 27, 19, 34, 21, 30, 179, 24, 168,170, 167, 29, 163, 22, 174, and 173.

FIG. 287 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 10/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 287, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 100, 22, 60, 121, 40, 44, 164, 170, 176,101, 88, 26, 35, 4, 21, 173, 140, 145, 175, 174, 81, 28, 72, 112, 132,106, 42, 56, 151, 147, 82, 49, 91, 64, 179, 89, 160, 52, 139, 17, 97,63, 116, 131, 154, 71, 109, 96, 135, 146, 55, 38, 166, 117, 65, 127,120, 129, 15, 136, 74, 23, 98, 43, 123, 130, 69, 99, 143, 161, 46, 51,94, 61, 83, 67, 156, 33, 144, 148, 163, 47, 92, 2, 122, 24, 86, 75, 108,152, 14, 77, 7, 10, 29, 19, 104, 128, 142, 1, 79, 107, 162, 0, 118, 66,54, 153, 141, 9, 85, 37, 32, 114, 53, 134, 41, 158, 178, 138, 76, 50,78, 84, 172, 48, 133, 168, 125, 13, 169, 25, 16, 8, 124, 159, 167, 58,5, 11, 68, 95, 27, 110, 93, 62, 102, 137, 126, 150, 87, 105, 113, 30,119, 6, 103, 57, 31, 149, 80, 70, 45, 165, 111, 73, 36, 157, 171, 3, 20,18, 90, 12, 59, 39, 115, 34, 177, and 155.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 287, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 100, 88, 81, 82, 97, 55, 74, 46, 163, 14,79, 85, 76, 169, 68, 87, 80, 20, 22, 26, 28, 49, 63, 38, 23, 51, 47, 77,107, 37, 50, 25, 95, 105, 70, 18, 60, 35, 72, 91, 116, 166, 98, 94, 92,7, 162, 32, 78, 16, 27, 113, 45, 90, 121, 4, 112, 64, 131, 117, 43, 61,2, 10, 0, 114, 84, 8, 110, 30, 165, 12, 40, 21, 132, 179, 154, 65, 123,83, 122, 29, 118, 53, 172, 124, 93, 119, 111, 59, 44, 173, 106, 89, 71,127, 130, 67, 24, 19, 66, 134, 48, 159, 62, 6, 73, 39, 164, 140, 42,160, 109, 120, 69, 156, 86, 104, 54, 41, 133, 167, 102, 103, 36, 115,170, 145, 56, 52, 96, 129, 99, 33, 75, 128, 153, 158, 168, 58, 137, 57,157, 34, 176, 175, 151, 139, 135, 15, 143, 144, 108, 142, 141, 178, 125,5, 126, 31, 171, 177, 101, 174, 147, 17, 146, 136, 161, 148, 152, 1, 9,138, 13, 11, 150, 149, 3, and 155.

FIG. 288 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 11/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 288, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 33, 73, 90, 107, 99, 94, 53, 151, 124, 8,12, 117, 21, 58, 158, 77, 72, 59, 123, 2, 125, 157, 50, 62, 109, 75, 42,146, 118, 153, 85, 10, 131, 70, 32, 41, 24, 143, 113, 1, 93, 162, 20,35, 74, 45, 149, 161, 173, 4, 28, 23, 127, 148, 34, 61, 96, 144, 171,140, 119, 16, 126, 39, 40, 57, 165, 106, 172, 139, 81, 47, 164, 92, 63,105, 108, 170, 3, 135, 101, 121, 68, 6, 111, 65, 147, 150, 122, 7, 84,46, 22, 103, 86, 169, 134, 44, 175, 167, 89, 128, 27, 31, 56, 43, 102,156, 160, 141, 67, 9, 110, 159, 133, 78, 154, 176, 174, 5, 82, 11, 25,80, 130, 163, 88, 36, 166, 137, 104, 48, 129, 87, 95, 55, 49, 145, 178,0, 98, 64, 54, 100, 37, 79, 69, 38, 177, 136, 114, 17, 52, 19, 30, 97,51, 168, 132, 138, 83, 76, 13, 18, 115, 71, 91, 179, 112, 155, 15, 14,26, 60, 29, 116, 66, 120, 142, and 152.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 288, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 33, 12, 125, 85, 93, 28, 119, 81, 101, 84,89, 67, 82, 104, 98, 114, 83, 15, 73, 117, 157, 10, 162, 23, 16, 47,121, 46, 128, 9, 11, 48, 64, 17, 76, 14, 90, 21, 50, 131, 20, 127, 126,164, 68, 22, 27, 110, 25, 129, 54, 52, 13, 26, 107, 58, 62, 70, 35, 148,39, 92, 6, 103, 31, 159, 80, 87, 100, 19, 18, 60, 99, 158, 109, 32, 74,34, 40, 63, 111, 86, 56, 133, 130, 95, 37, 30, 115, 29, 94, 77, 75, 41,45, 61, 57, 105, 65, 169, 43, 78, 163, 55, 79, 97, 71, 116, 53, 72, 42,24, 149, 96, 165, 108, 147, 134, 102, 154, 88, 49, 69, 51, 91, 66, 151,59, 146, 143, 161, 144, 106, 170, 150, 44, 156, 176, 36, 145, 38, 168,179, 120, 124, 123, 118, 113, 173, 171, 172, 3, 122, 175, 160, 174, 166,178, 177, 132, 112, 142, 8, 2, 153, 1, 4, 140, 139, 135, 7, 167, 141, 5,137, 0, 136, 138, 155, and 152.

FIG. 289 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 12/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 289, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 91, 19, 11, 106, 14, 40, 20, 67, 32, 22,31, 23, 78, 68, 79, 141, 117, 95, 88, 136, 52, 121, 1, 133, 4, 2, 21,122, 38, 12, 69, 111, 81, 82, 58, 46, 112, 60, 33, 73, 53, 92, 75, 48,47, 110, 80, 76, 138, 87, 85, 65, 130, 57, 102, 83, 64, 86, 100, 39, 49,125, 108, 119, 6, 118, 35, 61, 71, 30, 45, 94, 26, 116, 98, 37, 55, 44,70, 25, 7, 34, 114, 135, 128, 137, 84, 51, 28, 97, 27, 89, 29, 62, 50,139, 56, 109, 77, 59, 127, 142, 96, 105, 99, 90, 13, 124, 120, 115, 126,143, 149, 74, 41, 178, 129, 18, 131, 42, 165, 101, 134, 36, 140, 132,103, 72, 164, 93, 54, 166, 43, 123, 113, 0, 154, 10, 63, 107, 162, 157,66, 104, 17, 147, 167, 174, 179, 3, 173, 160, 155, 161, 152, 156, 177,24, 170, 9, 159, 16, 15, 148, 5, 146, 163, 172, 175, 151, 169, 176, 150,153, 171, 158, 168, 144, 8, and 145.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 289, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 91, 88, 112, 102, 26, 27, 120, 103, 17,15, 19, 136, 60, 83, 116, 89, 115, 72, 147, 148, 11, 52, 33, 64, 98, 29,126, 164, 167, 5, 106, 121, 73, 86, 37, 62, 143, 93, 174, 146, 14, 1,53, 100, 55, 50, 149, 54, 179, 163, 40, 133, 92, 39, 44, 139, 74, 166,3, 172, 20, 4, 75, 49, 70, 56, 41, 43, 173, 175, 67, 2, 48, 125, 25,109, 178, 123, 160, 151, 32, 21, 47, 108, 7, 77, 129, 113, 155, 169, 22,122, 110, 119, 34, 59, 18, 0, 161, 176, 31, 38, 80, 6, 114, 127, 131,154, 152, 150, 23, 12, 76, 118, 135, 142, 42, 10, 156, 153, 78, 69, 138,35, 128, 96, 165, 63, 177, 171, 68, 111, 87, 61, 137, 105, 101, 107, 24,158, 79, 81, 85, 71, 84, 99, 134, 162, 170, 168, 141, 82, 65, 30, 51,90, 36, 157, 9, 144, 117, 58, 130, 45, 28, 13, 140, 66, 159, 8, 95, 46,57, 94, 97, 124, 132, 104, 16, and 145.

FIG. 290 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is1024-QAM and the code rate r is 13/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 290, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 49, 2, 57, 47, 31, 35, 24, 39, 59, 0, 45,41, 55, 53, 51, 37, 33, 43, 56, 38, 48, 32, 50, 23, 34, 54, 1, 36, 44,52, 40, 58, 122, 46, 42, 30, 3, 75, 73, 65, 145, 71, 79, 67, 69, 83, 85,147, 63, 81, 77, 61, 5, 26, 62, 64, 74, 70, 82, 149, 76, 4, 78, 84, 80,86, 66, 68, 72, 6, 60, 154, 103, 95, 101, 143, 9, 89, 141, 128, 97, 137,133, 7, 13, 99, 91, 93, 87, 11, 136, 90, 88, 94, 10, 8, 14, 96, 104, 92,132, 142, 100, 98, 12, 102, 152, 139, 150, 106, 146, 130, 27, 108, 153,112, 114, 29, 110, 134, 116, 15, 127, 125, 123, 120, 148, 151, 113, 126,124, 135, 129, 109, 25, 28, 158, 117, 105, 115, 111, 131, 107, 121, 18,170, 164, 20, 140, 160, 166, 162, 119, 155, 168, 178, 22, 174, 172, 176,16, 157, 159, 171, 161, 118, 17, 163, 21, 165, 19, 179, 177, 167, 138,173, 156, 144, 169, and 175.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 290, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 49, 56, 3, 62, 103, 136, 150, 148, 18,159, 2, 38, 75, 64, 95, 90, 106, 151, 170, 171, 57, 48, 73, 74, 101, 88,146, 113, 164, 161, 47, 32, 65, 70, 143, 94, 130, 126, 20, 118, 31, 50,145, 82, 9, 10, 27, 124, 140, 17, 35, 23, 71, 149, 89, 8, 108, 135, 160,163, 24, 34, 79, 76, 141, 14, 153, 129, 166, 21, 39, 54, 67, 4, 128, 96,112, 109, 162, 165, 59, 1, 69, 78, 97, 104, 114, 25, 119, 19, 0, 36, 83,84, 137, 92, 29, 28, 155, 179, 45, 44, 85, 80, 133, 132, 110, 158, 168,177, 41, 52, 147, 86, 7, 142, 134, 117, 178, 167, 55, 40, 63, 66, 13,100, 116, 105, 22, 138, 53, 58, 81, 68, 99, 98, 15, 115, 174, 173, 51,122, 77, 72, 91, 12, 127, 111, 172, 156, 37, 46, 61, 6, 93, 102, 125,131, 176, 144, 33, 42, 5, 60, 87, 152, 123, 107, 16, 169, 43, 30, 26,154, 11, 139, 120, 121, 157, and 175.

FIG. 291 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 2/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 291, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 14, 129, 71, 96, 171, 36, 144, 64, 162, 4,86, 128, 113, 7, 105, 131, 2, 133, 106, 79, 11, 152, 26, 118, 158, 126,17, 55, 45, 111, 138, 84, 6, 52, 167, 38, 20, 101, 31, 120, 5, 112, 74,69, 121, 9, 154, 15, 146, 116, 63, 1, 114, 83, 124, 109, 39, 75, 123,57, 49, 30, 21, 40, 43, 77, 157, 44, 13, 99, 34, 147, 166, 56, 155, 176,95, 102, 119, 161, 37, 159, 97, 68, 122, 163, 89, 61, 107, 22, 10, 127,87, 103, 179, 172, 66, 59, 8, 145, 88, 132, 110, 54, 47, 153, 25, 32,73, 42, 148, 150, 28, 91, 18, 24, 19, 53, 136, 48, 76, 35, 151, 173,149, 142, 160, 94, 117, 169, 165, 141, 80, 67, 170, 164, 82, 65, 60,135, 168, 23, 100, 134, 90, 98, 125, 85, 137, 81, 41, 156, 50, 3, 29,16, 72, 177, 0, 78, 62, 139, 93, 46, 12, 175, 130, 51, 178, 92, 115,174, 27, 70, 58, 33, 104, 140, 108, and 143.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 291, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 14, 131, 138, 9, 49, 176, 10, 153, 76,164, 41, 175, 129, 2, 84, 154, 30, 95, 127, 25, 35, 82, 156, 130, 71,133, 6, 15, 21, 102, 87, 32, 151, 65, 50, 51, 96, 106, 52, 146, 40, 119,103, 73, 173, 60, 3, 178, 171, 79, 167, 116, 43, 161, 179, 42, 149, 135,29, 92, 36, 11, 38, 63, 77, 37, 172, 148, 142, 168, 16, 115, 144, 152,20, 1, 157, 159, 66, 150, 160, 23, 72, 174, 64, 26, 101, 114, 44, 97,59, 28, 94, 100, 177, 27, 162, 118, 31, 83, 13, 68, 8, 91, 117, 134, 0,70, 4, 158, 120, 124, 99, 122, 145, 18, 169, 90, 78, 58, 86, 126, 5,109, 34, 163, 88, 24, 165, 98, 62, 33, 128, 17, 112, 39, 147, 89, 132,19, 141, 125, 139, 104, 113, 55, 74, 75, 166, 61, 110, 53, 80, 85, 93,140, 7, 45, 69, 123, 56, 107, 54, 136, 67, 137, 46, 108, 105, 111, 121,57, 155, 22, 47, 48, 170, 81, 12, and 143.

FIG. 292 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 3/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 292, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 136, 20, 44, 36, 17, 120, 89, 142, 66, 35,42, 116, 14, 119, 117, 29, 47, 125, 11, 158, 74, 25, 37, 175, 41, 145,100, 131, 173, 179, 16, 77, 112, 40, 58, 23, 82, 168, 106, 83, 34, 49,122, 2, 157, 107, 79, 137, 53, 96, 33, 70, 19, 38, 121, 90, 118, 126,165, 109, 154, 140, 10, 178, 143, 92, 63, 176, 146, 134, 177, 139, 3,113, 172, 9, 50, 138, 61, 93, 94, 88, 132, 105, 151, 170, 86, 12, 1, 7,56, 59, 101, 155, 95, 54, 85, 13, 39, 15, 76, 130, 97, 110, 174, 72,150, 55, 73, 99, 111, 162, 26, 21, 156, 28, 160, 149, 133, 104, 81, 69,84, 4, 6, 147, 48, 115, 169, 127, 161, 71, 68, 80, 91, 98, 8, 57, 171,135, 52, 5, 141, 65, 75, 163, 43, 144, 167, 159, 129, 46, 31, 30, 166,0, 148, 128, 102, 103, 60, 32, 18, 51, 87, 114, 64, 22, 164, 24, 123,27, 62, 124, 152, 78, 108, 67, 153, and 45.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 292, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 136, 29, 16, 107, 154, 9, 56, 72, 81, 98,129, 114, 20, 47, 77, 79, 140, 50, 59, 150, 69, 8, 46, 64, 44, 125, 112,137, 10, 138, 101, 55, 84, 57, 31, 22, 36, 11, 40, 53, 178, 61, 155, 73,4, 171, 30, 164, 17, 158, 58, 96, 143, 93, 95, 99, 6, 135, 166, 24, 120,74, 23, 33, 92, 94, 54, 111, 147, 52, 0, 123, 89, 25, 82, 70, 63, 88,85, 162, 48, 5, 148, 27, 142, 37, 168, 19, 176, 132, 13, 26, 115, 141,128, 62, 66, 175, 106, 38, 146, 105, 39, 21, 169, 65, 102, 124, 35, 41,83, 121, 134, 151, 15, 156, 127, 75, 103, 152, 42, 145, 34, 90, 177,170, 76, 28, 161, 163, 60, 78, 116, 100, 49, 118, 139, 86, 130, 160, 71,43, 32, 108, 14, 131, 122, 126, 3, 12, 97, 149, 68, 144, 18, 67, 119,173, 2, 165, 113, 1, 110, 133, 80, 167, 51, 153, 117, 179, 157, 109,172, 7, 174, 104, 91, 159, 87, and 45.

FIG. 293 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 4/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 293, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 91, 52, 36, 30, 35, 6, 121, 29, 150, 47,163, 2, 89, 39, 65, 157, 64, 122, 101, 40, 84, 69, 90, 129, 10, 9, 15,162, 21, 171, 43, 44, 132, 158, 104, 4, 72, 169, 177, 103, 76, 28, 78,53, 1, 151, 161, 88, 148, 42, 160, 109, 100, 126, 138, 108, 38, 25, 3,112, 17, 124, 155, 172, 134, 86, 119, 94, 145, 178, 68, 26, 130, 140,115, 152, 139, 37, 22, 102, 14, 118, 11, 98, 154, 61, 146, 164, 107,131, 159, 63, 93, 7, 79, 5, 137, 165, 59, 77, 55, 80, 117, 13, 173, 144,85, 153, 66, 106, 49, 34, 48, 41, 143, 142, 27, 136, 18, 111, 175, 123,147, 114, 19, 125, 166, 149, 113, 46, 31, 141, 120, 57, 74, 8, 20, 96,170, 128, 97, 16, 60, 110, 156, 45, 82, 105, 62, 99, 23, 92, 32, 50, 73,56, 167, 95, 24, 168, 33, 116, 75, 127, 81, 67, 179, 174, 70, 12, 58,87, 176, 0, 51, 135, 83, 133, 54, and 71.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 293, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 91, 157, 43, 151, 17, 152, 159, 144, 175,8, 23, 67, 52, 64, 44, 161, 124, 139, 63, 85, 123, 20, 92, 179, 36, 122,132, 88, 155, 37, 93, 153, 147, 96, 32, 174, 30, 101, 158, 148, 172, 22,7, 66, 114, 170, 50, 70, 35, 40, 104, 42, 134, 102, 79, 106, 19, 128,73, 12, 6, 84, 4, 160, 86, 14, 5, 49, 125, 97, 56, 58, 121, 69, 72, 109,119, 118, 137, 34, 166, 16, 167, 87, 29, 90, 169, 100, 94, 11, 165, 48,149, 60, 95, 176, 150, 129, 177, 126, 145, 98, 59, 41, 113, 110, 24, 0,47, 10, 103, 138, 178, 154, 77, 143, 46, 156, 168, 51, 163, 9, 76, 108,68, 61, 55, 142, 31, 45, 33, 135, 2, 15, 28, 38, 26, 146, 80, 27, 141,82, 116, 83, 89, 162, 78, 25, 130, 164, 117, 136, 120, 105, 75, 133, 39,21, 53, 3, 140, 107, 13, 18, 57, 62, 127, 54, 65, 171, 1, 112, 115, 131,173, 111, 74, 99, 81, and 71.

FIG. 294 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 5/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 294, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 146, 89, 57, 16, 164, 138, 91, 78, 90, 66,122, 12, 9, 157, 14, 68, 112, 128, 74, 45, 28, 87, 158, 56, 61, 168, 18,161, 95, 99, 139, 22, 65, 130, 166, 118, 150, 49, 142, 44, 36, 1, 121,6, 46, 29, 88, 47, 0, 58, 105, 43, 80, 64, 107, 21, 55, 151, 8, 145,163, 7, 98, 123, 17, 11, 153, 136, 52, 3, 13, 34, 160, 102, 125, 114,152, 84, 32, 97, 33, 60, 62, 79, 37, 129, 38, 165, 71, 75, 59, 144, 127,132, 104, 53, 162, 103, 120, 54, 155, 116, 48, 77, 76, 73, 113, 119,179, 177, 41, 19, 92, 109, 31, 143, 178, 108, 39, 140, 106, 40, 5, 25,81, 176, 101, 124, 126, 72, 111, 4, 173, 156, 134, 86, 174, 2, 170, 35,175, 137, 15, 24, 69, 96, 30, 117, 67, 171, 149, 169, 63, 23, 20, 167,27, 147, 51, 10, 82, 131, 85, 110, 94, 135, 172, 148, 50, 154, 42, 70,115, 26, 83, 141, 100, 133, 93, and 159.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 294, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 146, 68, 139, 29, 163, 114, 59, 73, 106,86, 149, 135, 89, 112, 22, 88, 7, 152, 144, 113, 40, 174, 169, 172, 57,128, 65, 47, 98, 84, 127, 119, 5, 2, 63, 148, 16, 74, 130, 0, 123, 32,132, 179, 25, 170, 23, 50, 164, 45, 166, 58, 17, 97, 104, 177, 81, 35,20, 154, 138, 28, 118, 105, 11, 33, 53, 41, 176, 175, 167, 42, 91, 87,150, 43, 153, 60, 162, 19, 101, 137, 27, 70, 78, 158, 49, 80, 136, 62,103, 92, 124, 15, 147, 115, 90, 56, 142, 64, 52, 79, 120, 109, 126, 24,51, 26, 66, 61, 44, 107, 3, 37, 54, 31, 72, 69, 10, 83, 122, 168, 36,21, 13, 129, 155, 143, 111, 96, 82, 141, 12, 18, 1, 55, 34, 38, 116,178, 4, 30, 131, 100, 9, 161, 121, 151, 160, 165, 48, 108, 173, 117, 85,133, 157, 95, 6, 8, 102, 71, 77, 39, 156, 67, 110, 93, 14, 99, 46, 145,125, 75, 76, 140, 134, 171, 94, and 159.

FIG. 295 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 6/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 295, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 66, 21, 51, 55, 117, 24, 33, 12, 70, 63,47, 65, 145, 8, 0, 57, 23, 71, 59, 14, 40, 42, 15, 56, 2, 43, 64, 58,67, 53, 68, 61, 39, 52, 69, 1, 22, 31, 161, 38, 30, 19, 17, 18, 4, 41,25, 44, 136, 29, 36, 26, 126, 177, 62, 37, 148, 9, 13, 45, 46, 152, 50,49, 27, 77, 60, 35, 48, 178, 28, 34, 106, 127, 76, 131, 105, 138, 75,130, 101, 167, 54, 173, 113, 108, 92, 135, 124, 121, 97, 149, 143, 81,32, 96, 3, 78, 107, 86, 98, 16, 162, 150, 111, 158, 172, 139, 74, 142,166, 7, 5, 119, 20, 144, 151, 90, 11, 156, 100, 175, 83, 155, 159, 128,88, 87, 93, 103, 94, 140, 165, 6, 137, 157, 10, 85, 141, 129, 146, 122,73, 112, 132, 125, 174, 169, 168, 79, 84, 118, 179, 147, 91, 160, 163,115, 89, 80, 102, 104, 134, 82, 95, 133, 164, 154, 120, 110, 170, 114,153, 72, 109, 171, 176, 99, 116, and 123.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 295, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 66, 57, 68, 41, 46, 131, 97, 158, 100,157, 84, 133, 21, 23, 61, 25, 152, 105, 149, 172, 175, 10, 118, 164, 51,71, 39, 44, 50, 138, 143, 139, 83, 85, 179, 154, 55, 59, 52, 136, 49,75, 81, 74, 155, 141, 147, 120, 117, 14, 69, 29, 27, 130, 32, 142, 159,129, 91, 110, 24, 40, 1, 36, 77, 101, 96, 166, 128, 146, 160, 170, 33,42, 22, 26, 60, 167, 3, 7, 88, 122, 163, 114, 12, 15, 31, 126, 35, 54,78, 5, 87, 73, 115, 153, 70, 56, 161, 177, 48, 173, 107, 119, 93, 112,89, 72, 63, 2, 38, 62, 178, 113, 86, 20, 103, 132, 80, 109, 47, 43, 30,37, 28, 108, 98, 144, 94, 125, 102, 171, 65, 64, 19, 148, 34, 92, 16,151, 140, 174, 104, 176, 145, 58, 17, 9, 106, 135, 162, 90, 165, 169,134, 99, 8, 67, 18, 13, 127, 124, 150, 11, 6, 168, 82, 116, 0, 53, 4,45, 76, 121, 111, 156, 137, 79, 95, and 123.

FIG. 296 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 7/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 296, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 59, 60, 0, 48, 87, 30, 29, 146, 142, 8,150, 171, 20, 121, 23, 122, 144, 76, 162, 106, 50, 39, 63, 108, 165,174, 16, 85, 58, 43, 161, 34, 13, 92, 79, 82, 175, 86, 69, 68, 15, 113,84, 118, 27, 93, 120, 61, 73, 104, 10, 38, 45, 7, 173, 75, 24, 77, 137,21, 37, 46, 3, 6, 168, 148, 109, 123, 103, 140, 64, 117, 158, 114, 136,112, 31, 70, 134, 163, 98, 91, 33, 115, 95, 176, 154, 107, 97, 131, 111,129, 40, 66, 170, 41, 74, 138, 99, 179, 81, 157, 32, 19, 26, 62, 172,78, 160, 57, 22, 159, 51, 135, 2, 55, 164, 153, 155, 14, 42, 149, 127,133, 83, 96, 139, 89, 36, 125, 130, 143, 147, 67, 18, 102, 94, 35, 101,44, 49, 177, 88, 11, 105, 151, 12, 132, 25, 128, 119, 65, 145, 4, 54,90, 71, 167, 166, 1, 156, 56, 124, 17, 141, 72, 9, 28, 5, 110, 100, 47,80, 169, 116, 53, 152, 52, 126, and 178.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 296, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 59, 122, 161, 93, 37, 112, 111, 62, 42,102, 119, 72, 60, 144, 34, 120, 46, 31, 129, 172, 149, 94, 65, 9, 0, 76,13, 61, 3, 70, 40, 78, 127, 35, 145, 28, 48, 162, 92, 73, 6, 134, 66,160, 133, 101, 4, 5, 87, 106, 79, 104, 168, 163, 170, 57, 83, 44, 54,110, 30, 50, 82, 10, 148, 98, 41, 22, 96, 49, 90, 100, 29, 39, 175, 38,109, 91, 74, 159, 139, 177, 71, 47, 146, 63, 86, 45, 123, 33, 138, 51,89, 88, 167, 80, 142, 108, 69, 7, 103, 115, 99, 135, 36, 11, 166, 169,8, 165, 68, 173, 140, 95, 179, 2, 125, 105, 1, 116, 150, 174, 15, 75,64, 176, 81, 55, 130, 151, 156, 53, 171, 16, 113, 24, 117, 154, 157,164, 143, 12, 56, 152, 20, 85, 84, 77, 158, 107, 32, 153, 147, 132, 124,52, 121, 58, 118, 137, 114, 97, 19, 155, 67, 25, 17, 126, 23, 43, 27,21, 136, 131, 26, 14, 18, 128, 141, and 178.

FIG. 297 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 8/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 297, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 77, 48, 82, 51, 57, 69, 65, 6, 71, 90, 84,81, 50, 88, 61, 55, 53, 73, 39, 13, 79, 75, 41, 18, 38, 89, 49, 93, 36,64, 47, 40, 42, 76, 70, 56, 3, 72, 2, 54, 52, 145, 19, 78, 80, 63, 87,67, 86, 10, 1, 58, 17, 14, 175, 91, 68, 85, 94, 15, 43, 74, 60, 66, 37,92, 4, 9, 16, 83, 46, 44, 102, 30, 112, 122, 110, 29, 20, 105, 138, 101,174, 33, 137, 136, 131, 166, 59, 34, 62, 125, 28, 26, 45, 24, 23, 21,157, 98, 35, 95, 22, 32, 103, 27, 113, 31, 119, 173, 168, 118, 120, 114,149, 159, 155, 179, 160, 161, 130, 123, 172, 139, 124, 153, 0, 109, 167,128, 107, 117, 147, 177, 96, 164, 152, 11, 148, 158, 129, 163, 176, 151,171, 8, 106, 144, 150, 169, 108, 162, 143, 111, 141, 133, 178, 134, 146,99, 132, 142, 104, 115, 135, 121, 100, 12, 170, 156, 126, 5, 127, 154,97, 140, 116, 165, 7, and 25.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 297, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 77, 55, 47, 63, 43, 122, 62, 27, 130, 164,108, 121, 48, 53, 40, 87, 74, 110, 125, 113, 123, 152, 162, 100, 82, 73,42, 67, 60, 29, 28, 31, 172, 11, 143, 12, 51, 39, 76, 86, 66, 20, 26,119, 139, 148, 111, 170, 57, 13, 70, 10, 37, 105, 45, 173, 124, 158,141, 156, 69, 79, 56, 1, 92, 138, 24, 168, 153, 129, 133, 126, 65, 75,3, 58, 4, 101, 23, 118, 0, 163, 178, 5, 6, 41, 72, 17, 9, 174, 21, 120,109, 176, 134, 127, 71, 18, 2, 14, 16, 33, 157, 114, 167, 151, 146, 154,90, 38, 54, 175, 83, 137, 98, 149, 128, 171, 99, 97, 84, 89, 52, 91, 46,136, 35, 159, 107, 8, 132, 140, 81, 49, 145, 68, 44, 131, 95, 155, 117,106, 142, 116, 50, 93, 19, 85, 102, 166, 22, 179, 147, 144, 104, 165,88, 36, 78, 94, 30, 59, 32, 160, 177, 150, 115, 7, 61, 64, 80, 15, 112,34, 103, 161, 96, 169, 135, and 25.

FIG. 298 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 9/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 298, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 67, 79, 72, 175, 1, 92, 63, 65, 36, 73,18, 3, 43, 78, 5, 40, 82, 20, 15, 76, 28, 84, 59, 91, 93, 54, 58, 60, 2,19, 66, 44, 85, 48, 0, 50, 166, 89, 41, 24, 83, 75, 55, 64, 52, 98, 39,141, 34, 74, 33, 45, 99, 46, 10, 69, 94, 101, 56, 9, 97, 96, 37, 14, 31,70, 106, 113, 80, 62, 100, 13, 32, 88, 57, 127, 53, 68, 146, 61, 7, 107,71, 51, 161, 81, 49, 86, 95, 103, 30, 25, 126, 87, 22, 47, 27, 171, 102,6, 132, 77, 90, 38, 167, 4, 35, 26, 118, 140, 104, 128, 179, 124, 109,159, 42, 110, 21, 105, 148, 142, 134, 23, 117, 122, 160, 12, 154, 114,156, 151, 145, 169, 11, 139, 177, 129, 155, 178, 138, 176, 147, 121,136, 165, 170, 133, 149, 150, 174, 168, 125, 116, 115, 164, 29, 119,153, 157, 162, 173, 112, 144, 172, 123, 137, 16, 120, 131, 111, 135,163, 17, 130, 152, 108, 8, 158, and 143.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 298, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 67, 40, 66, 98, 97, 127, 30, 4, 148, 139,174, 123, 79, 82, 44, 39, 96, 53, 25, 35, 142, 177, 168, 137, 72, 20,85, 141, 37, 68, 126, 26, 134, 129, 125, 16, 175, 15, 48, 34, 14, 146,87, 118, 23, 155, 116, 120, 1, 76, 0, 74, 31, 61, 22, 140, 117, 178,115, 131, 92, 28, 50, 33, 70, 7, 47, 104, 122, 138, 164, 111, 63, 84,166, 45, 106, 107, 27, 128, 160, 176, 29, 135, 65, 59, 89, 99, 113, 71,171, 179, 12, 147, 119, 163, 36, 91, 41, 46, 80, 51, 102, 124, 154, 121,153, 17, 73, 93, 24, 10, 62, 161, 6, 109, 114, 136, 157, 130, 18, 54,83, 69, 100, 81, 132, 159, 156, 165, 162, 152, 3, 58, 75, 94, 13, 49,77, 42, 151, 170, 173, 108, 43, 60, 55, 101, 32, 86, 90, 110, 145, 133,112, 8, 78, 2, 64, 56, 88, 95, 38, 21, 169, 149, 144, 158, 5, 19, 52, 9,57, 103, 167, 105, 11, 150, 172, and 143.

FIG. 299 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 10/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 299, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 36, 21, 117, 71, 38, 108, 42, 61, 13, 88,97, 68, 2, 67, 50, 64, 95, 63, 100, 9, 82, 51, 45, 78, 31, 18, 103, 39,119, 25, 40, 28, 72, 11, 73, 86, 131, 84, 111, 24, 58, 60, 81, 37, 89,1, 93, 56, 69, 96, 35, 57, 116, 130, 55, 74, 41, 169, 54, 14, 26, 65,83, 165, 107, 0, 52, 144, 75, 101, 8, 115, 118, 85, 48, 112, 80, 90, 32,173, 76, 33, 16, 77, 164, 104, 46, 20, 98, 109, 29, 114, 7, 110, 99, 53,133, 70, 87, 106, 145, 4, 113, 27, 59, 34, 5, 102, 148, 142, 79, 19, 44,159, 174, 155, 136, 94, 43, 49, 152, 161, 66, 3, 121, 135, 147, 17, 157,30, 153, 154, 137, 168, 92, 149, 171, 10, 177, 134, 143, 176, 179, 105,172, 47, 146, 160, 23, 175, 141, 91, 140, 163, 132, 6, 126, 124, 12,170, 167, 151, 125, 139, 150, 15, 129, 162, 120, 166, 156, 62, 158, 178,128, 127, 22, 122, 123, and 138.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 299, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 36, 64, 40, 1, 26, 112, 29, 34, 152, 149,141, 15, 21, 95, 28, 93, 65, 80, 114, 5, 161, 171, 91, 129, 117, 63, 72,56, 83, 90, 7, 102, 66, 10, 140, 162, 71, 100, 11, 69, 165, 32, 110,148, 3, 177, 163, 120, 38, 9, 73, 96, 107, 173, 99, 142, 121, 134, 132,166, 108, 82, 86, 35, 0, 76, 53, 79, 135, 143, 6, 156, 42, 51, 131, 57,52, 33, 133, 19, 147, 176, 126, 62, 61, 45, 84, 116, 144, 16, 70, 44,17, 179, 124, 158, 13, 78, 111, 130, 75, 77, 87, 159, 157, 105, 12, 178,88, 31, 24, 55, 101, 164, 106, 174, 30, 172, 170, 128, 97, 18, 58, 74,8, 104, 145, 155, 153, 47, 167, 127, 68, 103, 60, 41, 115, 46, 4, 136,154, 146, 151, 22, 2, 39, 81, 169, 118, 20, 113, 94, 137, 160, 125, 122,67, 119, 37, 54, 85, 98, 27, 43, 168, 23, 139, 123, 50, 25, 89, 14, 48,109, 59, 49, 92, 175, 150, and 138.

FIG. 300 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 11/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 300, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 77, 97, 3, 44, 119, 72, 83, 116, 40, 0,111, 8, 68, 43, 24, 102, 49, 92, 65, 31, 93, 60, 17, 76, 89, 118, 70,87, 15, 67, 22, 59, 95, 46, 38, 125, 48, 58, 140, 104, 73, 47, 14, 120,1, 50, 80, 63, 62, 45, 9, 25, 114, 19, 82, 54, 150, 121, 130, 123, 37,55, 23, 98, 81, 122, 103, 85, 126, 101, 78, 5, 128, 148, 57, 12, 107,36, 2, 109, 52, 39, 66, 115, 42, 156, 90, 51, 91, 29, 84, 18, 144, 10,94, 64, 100, 86, 71, 27, 30, 32, 110, 33, 113, 131, 35, 34, 112, 26,108, 16, 61, 56, 75, 41, 117, 69, 172, 96, 149, 127, 124, 173, 13, 74,105, 53, 161, 146, 174, 79, 88, 28, 129, 134, 139, 136, 145, 170, 135,158, 154, 162, 7, 169, 99, 106, 137, 165, 143, 4, 175, 138, 133, 171,168, 147, 167, 141, 163, 176, 179, 142, 11, 177, 153, 151, 159, 132, 20,164, 6, 157, 178, 21, 166, 155, 160, and 152.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 300, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 77, 102, 22, 50, 37, 12, 84, 131, 149,134, 143, 177, 97, 49, 59, 80, 55, 107, 18, 35, 127, 139, 4, 153, 3, 92,95, 63, 23, 36, 144, 34, 124, 136, 175, 151, 44, 65, 46, 62, 98, 2, 10,112, 173, 145, 138, 159, 119, 31, 38, 45, 81, 109, 94, 26, 13, 170, 133,132, 72, 93, 125, 9, 122, 52, 64, 108, 74, 135, 171, 20, 83, 60, 48, 25,103, 39, 100, 16, 105, 158, 168, 164, 116, 17, 58, 114, 85, 66, 86, 61,53, 154, 147, 6, 40, 76, 140, 19, 126, 115, 71, 56, 161, 162, 167, 157,0, 89, 104, 82, 101, 42, 27, 75, 146, 7, 141, 178, 111, 118, 73, 54, 78,156, 30, 41, 174, 169, 163, 21, 8, 70, 47, 150, 5, 90, 32, 117, 79, 99,176, 166, 68, 87, 14, 121, 128, 51, 110, 69, 88, 106, 179, 155, 43, 15,120, 130, 148, 91, 33, 172, 28, 137, 142, 160, 24, 67, 1, 123, 57, 29,113, 96, 129, 165, 11, and 152.

FIG. 301 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 12/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 301, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 110, 16, 64, 100, 55, 70, 48, 26, 60, 71,93, 1, 59, 88, 97, 136, 67, 94, 90, 72, 49, 23, 41, 92, 9, 35, 37, 113,101, 111, 8, 52, 56, 19, 134, 151, 84, 126, 159, 63, 44, 65, 139, 31,57, 103, 22, 116, 172, 38, 95, 36, 46, 141, 114, 4, 106, 149, 85, 86,66, 51, 121, 105, 109, 87, 6, 135, 127, 47, 123, 39, 10, 148, 43, 131,147, 45, 143, 5, 108, 81, 2, 140, 120, 132, 76, 58, 137, 18, 29, 125,17, 30, 32, 156, 133, 78, 91, 161, 104, 174, 53, 61, 50, 74, 77, 33,171, 138, 28, 69, 112, 119, 12, 102, 20, 167, 99, 122, 117, 24, 98, 115,124, 42, 7, 79, 75, 128, 82, 68, 80, 3, 11, 54, 96, 40, 129, 142, 107,73, 175, 14, 83, 150, 165, 118, 89, 130, 15, 163, 34, 166, 173, 146,168, 153, 154, 177, 62, 145, 0, 178, 155, 157, 179, 144, 158, 152, 13,25, 176, 162, 169, 164, 27, 21, 160, and 170.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 301, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 110, 136, 8, 103, 66, 131, 29, 74, 117,54, 15, 157, 16, 67, 52, 22, 51, 147, 125, 77, 24, 96, 163, 179, 64, 94,56, 116, 121, 45, 17, 33, 98, 40, 34, 144, 100, 90, 19, 172, 105, 143,30, 171, 115, 129, 166, 158, 55, 72, 134, 38, 109, 5, 32, 138, 124, 142,173, 152, 70, 49, 151, 95, 87, 108, 156, 28, 42, 107, 146, 13, 48, 23,84, 36, 6, 81, 133, 69, 7, 73, 168, 25, 26, 41, 126, 46, 135, 2, 78,112, 79, 175, 153, 176, 60, 92, 159, 141, 127, 140, 91, 119, 75, 14,154, 162, 71, 9, 63, 114, 47, 120, 161, 12, 128, 83, 177, 169, 93, 35,44, 4, 123, 132, 104, 102, 82, 150, 62, 164, 1, 37, 65, 106, 39, 76,174, 20, 68, 165, 145, 27, 59, 113, 139, 149, 10, 58, 53, 167, 80, 118,0, 21, 88, 101, 31, 85, 148, 137, 61, 99, 3, 89, 178, 160, 97, 111, 57,86, 43, 18, 50, 122, 11, 130, 155, and 170.

FIG. 302 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 64 k bits when the modulation scheme is4096-QAM and the code rate r is 13/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 302, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 87, 50, 6, 42, 82, 54, 96, 0, 62, 124,109, 126, 23, 64, 53, 20, 41, 111, 145, 135, 68, 2, 122, 128, 107, 7,28, 14, 125, 136, 154, 10, 92, 99, 84, 86, 151, 108, 24, 94, 148, 29,123, 13, 88, 52, 35, 61, 102, 132, 95, 70, 40, 129, 101, 36, 51, 150,142, 152, 121, 131, 116, 97, 104, 31, 59, 137, 83, 112, 113, 57, 77, 32,93, 49, 58, 117, 78, 1, 149, 37, 11, 100, 85, 79, 72, 66, 130, 18, 63,55, 91, 46, 146, 21, 143, 44, 110, 75, 138, 16, 76, 45, 114, 144, 119,38, 140, 65, 30, 133, 153, 33, 89, 71, 115, 105, 90, 56, 25, 103, 147,73, 60, 47, 118, 27, 69, 9, 74, 48, 19, 39, 43, 34, 81, 139, 3, 164,106, 134, 5, 67, 80, 141, 120, 98, 155, 8, 156, 162, 163, 165, 26, 161,168, 176, 159, 170, 4, 127, 22, 173, 157, 171, 178, 158, 17, 174, 179,167, 12, 172, 166, 160, 177, 169, 175, and 15.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 302, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 87, 20, 154, 52, 121, 49, 63, 144, 25, 34,156, 171, 50, 41, 10, 35, 131, 58, 55, 119, 103, 81, 162, 178, 6, 111,92, 61, 116, 117, 91, 38, 147, 139, 163, 158, 42, 145, 99, 102, 97, 78,46, 140, 73, 3, 165, 17, 82, 135, 84, 132, 104, 1, 146, 65, 60, 164, 26,174, 54, 68, 86, 95, 31, 149, 21, 30, 47, 106, 161, 179, 96, 2, 151, 70,59, 37, 143, 133, 118, 134, 168, 167, 0, 122, 108, 40, 137, 11, 44, 153,27, 5, 176, 12, 62, 128, 24, 129, 83, 100, 110, 33, 69, 67, 159, 172,124, 107, 94, 101, 112, 85, 75, 89, 9, 80, 170, 166, 109, 7, 148, 36,113, 79, 138, 71, 74, 141, 4, 160, 126, 28, 29, 51, 57, 72, 16, 115, 48,120, 127, 177, 23, 14, 123, 150, 77, 66, 76, 105, 19, 98, 22, 169, 64,125, 13, 142, 32, 130, 45, 90, 39, 155, 173, 175, 53, 136, 88, 152, 93,18, 114, 56, 43, 8, 157, and 15.

Example of GW Pattern Set to MODCOD (LDPC Code of 16 k Bits) FIG. 303shows an example of the GW pattern set to the MODCOD which is thecombination of the modulation scheme and the LDPC code of 16 k bits.

Similarly to FIG. 230, in FIG. 303, a case where “A”s are described inthe MODCODs which are combinations of 4 types of modulation schemes(MODs) and code rates (CR) of 12 types of LDPC codes means that it isassumed that the block interleaving of the type A is performed, and theGW patterns for the block interleaving of the type A are set. A casewhere “B”s are described means that it is assumed that the blockinterleaving of the type B is performed, and the GW patterns for theblock interleaving of the type B are set.

In FIG. 303, in the MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is QPSK (MOD2) and the code rates r of the LDPC code of 16 k bits are 2/15, 3/15,4/15, 5/15, 8/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15, it is assumed that theblock interleaving of the type A is performed. Meanwhile, in the MODCODsin which the modulation scheme is QPSK (MOD 2) and the code rates r ofthe LDPC code of 16 k bits are 6/15, 7/15, and 9/15, it is assumed thatthe block interleaving of the type B is performed.

In FIG. 303, in the MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is 16-QAM(MOD 4) and the code rates r of the LDPC code of 16 k bits are 2/15,3/15, 4/15, 5/15, 8/15, 10/15, and 12/15, it is assumed that the blockinterleaving of the type A is performed. Meanwhile, in the MODCODs inwhich the modulation scheme is 16-QAM (MOD 4) and the code rates r ofthe LDPC code of 16 k bits are 6/15, 7/15, 9/15, 11/15, and 13/15, it isassumed that the block interleaving of the type B is performed.

In FIG. 303, in the MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is 64-QAM(MOD 6) and the code rates r of the LDPC code of 16 k bits are 2/15,3/15, 4/15, 5/15, 8/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15, it is assumedthat the block interleaving of the type A is performed. Meanwhile, inthe MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is 64-QAM (MOD 6) and thecode rates r of the LDPC code of 16 k bits are 6/15, 7/15, and 9/15, itis assumed that the block interleaving of the type B is performed.

In FIG. 303, in the MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is 256-QAM(MOD 8) and the code rates r of the LDPC code of 16 k bits are 2/15,3/15, 4/15, 5/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 12/15, and 13/15, it isassumed that the block interleaving of the type A is performed.Meanwhile, in the MODCODs in which the modulation scheme is 256-QAM (MOD8) and the code rates r of the LDPC code of 16 k bits are 6/15, and11/15, it is assumed that the block interleaving of the type B isperformed.

As stated above, the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the type Aor the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the type B is set toeach MODCOD which is the combination of the modulation scheme and theLDPC code of 16 k bits depending on the assumed type A.

As mentioned above, when it is assumed that the block interleaving ofthe type B is performed in the group-wise interleaver 1021, the GWpattern for the block interleaving of the type B is rewritten into theGW pattern for the block interleaving of the type A such that a blockinterleaving effect obtained when the block interleaving of the type Ais performed is the same as a block interleaving effect obtained whenthe block interleaving of the type B is performed.

When it is assumed that the block interleaving of the type A isperformed in the group-wise interleaver 1021, the GW pattern for theblock interleaving of the type A is rewritten into the GW pattern forthe block interleaving of the type B such that a block interleavingeffect obtained when the block interleaving of the type B is performedis the same as a block interleaving effect obtained when the blockinterleaving of the type A is performed.

As a specific example of the GW pattern set to each MODCOD shown in FIG.303, an original GW pattern and a converted GW pattern will bedescribed. The UC or NUC may be applied to the QAM constellation such as16-QAM.

In each MODCOD, when the GW pattern for the block interleaving of thetype A is set as an original GW pattern (A), the GW pattern for theblock interleaving of the type B is set as a converted GW pattern (B).By contrast, when the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the typeB is set as an original GW pattern (B), the GW pattern for the blockinterleaving of the type A is set as a converted GW pattern (A).

FIG. 304 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 2/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 304, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24,26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19,21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 304, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

FIG. 305 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 3/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 305, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 15, 22, 34, 19, 7, 17, 28, 43, 30, 32, 14, 1,11, 0, 3, 9, 10, 38, 24, 4, 23, 18, 27, 39, 29, 33, 8, 2, 40, 21, 20,36, 44, 12, 37, 13, 35, 6, 31, 26, 16, 25, 42, 5, and 41.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 305, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 15, 27, 22, 39, 34, 29, 19, 33, 7, 8, 17,2, 28, 40, 43, 21, 30, 20, 32, 36, 14, 44, 1, 12, 11, 37, 0, 13, 3, 35,9, 6, 10, 31, 38, 26, 24, 16, 4, 25, 23, 42, 18, 5, and 41.

FIG. 306 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 4/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 306, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24,26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19,21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 306, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

FIG. 307 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 5/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 307, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 35, 7, 29, 11, 14, 32, 38, 28, 20, 17, 25, 39,19, 4, 1, 12, 10, 30, 0, 44, 43, 2, 21, 5, 13, 34, 37, 23, 15, 36, 18,42, 16, 33, 31, 27, 22, 3, 6, 40, 24, 41, 9, 26, and 8.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 307, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 35, 21, 7, 5, 29, 13, 11, 34, 14, 37, 32,23, 38, 15, 28, 36, 20, 18, 17, 42, 25, 16, 39, 33, 19, 31, 4, 27, 1,22, 12, 3, 10, 6, 30, 40, 0, 24, 44, 41, 43, 9, 2, 26, and 8.

FIG. 308 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 6/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 308, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 7, 4, 0, 5, 27, 30, 25, 13, 31, 9, 34, 10, 17,11, 8, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 1, 35, 24, 29, 33, 6, 26, 14,32, 28, 2, 3, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 308, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 7, 0, 27, 25, 31, 34, 17, 8, 15, 18, 20,22, 1, 24, 33, 26, 32, 2, 36, 38, 40, 42, 4, 5, 30, 13, 9, 10, 11, 12,16, 19, 21, 23, 35, 29, 6, 14, 28, 3, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

FIG. 309 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 7/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 309, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 3, 7, 1, 4, 18, 21, 22, 6, 9, 5, 17, 14, 13,15, 10, 20, 8, 19, 16, 12, 0, 11, 2, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 309, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 3, 1, 18, 22, 9, 17, 13, 10, 8, 16, 0, 2,24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 7, 4, 21, 6, 5, 14, 15, 20, 19,12, 11, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

FIG. 310 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 8/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 310, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24,26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19,21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 310, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

FIG. 311 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 9/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 311, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 311, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17,19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

FIG. 312 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 10/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 312, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 1, 4, 5, 6, 24, 21, 18, 7, 17, 12, 8, 20, 23,29, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 0, 2, 3, 14, 22, 13, 10, 25, 9, 27,19, 16, 15, 26, 11, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 312, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 1, 0, 4, 2, 5, 3, 6, 14, 24, 22, 21, 13,18, 10, 7, 25, 17, 9, 12, 27, 8, 19, 20, 16, 23, 15, 29, 26, 28, 11, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

FIG. 313 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 11/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 313, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24,26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19,21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 313, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

FIG. 314 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 12/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 314, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24,26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19,21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 314, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

FIG. 315 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme isQPSK and the code rate r is 13/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 315, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 26, 10, 12, 38, 28, 15, 0, 44, 34, 24, 14, 8,40, 30, 20, 13, 42, 32, 22, 11, 9, 36, 25, 7, 5, 37, 27, 4, 16, 43, 33,23, 2, 18, 39, 29, 19, 6, 41, 31, 21, 3, 17, 35, and 1.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 315, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 26, 25, 10, 7, 12, 5, 38, 37, 28, 27, 15,4, 0, 16, 44, 43, 34, 33, 24, 23, 14, 2, 8, 18, 40, 39, 30, 29, 20, 19,13, 6, 42, 41, 32, 31, 22, 21, 11, 3, 9, 17, 36, 35, and 1.

FIG. 316 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 2/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 316, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 5, 33, 18, 8, 29, 10, 21, 14, 30, 26, 11, 23,27, 4, 7, 6, 24, 44, 38, 31, 34, 43, 13, 0, 15, 42, 17, 2, 20, 12, 40,39, 35, 32, 1, 3, 41, 37, 9, 25, 19, 22, 16, 28, and 36.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 316, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 5, 23, 13, 32, 33, 27, 0, 1, 18, 4, 15, 3,8, 7, 42, 41, 29, 6, 17, 37, 10, 24, 2, 9, 21, 44, 20, 25, 14, 38, 12,19, 30, 31, 40, 22, 26, 34, 39, 16, 11, 43, 35, 28, and 36.

FIG. 317 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 3/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 317, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 18, 16, 5, 29, 26, 43, 23, 6, 1, 24, 7, 19,37, 2, 27, 3, 10, 15, 36, 39, 22, 12, 35, 33, 4, 17, 30, 31, 21, 9, 11,41, 0, 32, 20, 40, 25, 8, 34, 38, 28, 14, 44, 13, and 42.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 317, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 18, 19, 35, 32, 16, 37, 33, 20, 5, 2, 4,40, 29, 27, 17, 25, 26, 3, 30, 8, 43, 10, 31, 34, 23, 15, 21, 38, 6, 36,9, 28, 1, 39, 11, 14, 24, 22, 41, 44, 7, 12, 0, 13, and 42.

FIG. 318 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 4/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 318, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 34, 3, 19, 35, 25, 2, 17, 36, 26, 38, 0, 40,27, 10, 7, 43, 21, 28, 15, 6, 1, 37, 18, 30, 32, 33, 29, 22, 12, 13, 5,23, 44, 14, 4, 31, 20, 39, 42, 11, 9, 16, 41, 8, and 24.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 318, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 34, 40, 18, 14, 3, 27, 30, 4, 19, 10, 32,31, 35, 7, 33, 20, 25, 43, 29, 39, 2, 21, 22, 42, 17, 28, 12, 11, 36,15, 13, 9, 26, 6, 5, 16, 38, 1, 23, 41, 0, 37, 44, 8, and 24.

FIG. 319 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 5/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 319, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 3, 33, 39, 2, 38, 29, 0, 10, 25, 17, 7, 21,44, 37, 8, 34, 20, 1, 4, 31, 11, 42, 22, 13, 12, 28, 26, 43, 30, 14, 16,23, 24, 15, 5, 18, 9, 36, 6, 19, 32, 40, 41, 35, and 27.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 319, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 3, 21, 22, 15, 33, 44, 13, 5, 39, 37, 12,18, 2, 8, 28, 9, 38, 34, 26, 36, 29, 20, 43, 6, 0, 1, 30, 19, 10, 4, 14,32, 25, 31, 16, 40, 17, 11, 23, 41, 7, 42, 24, 35, and 27.

FIG. 320 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 6/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 320, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 12, 13, 15, 30, 27, 25, 11, 34, 9, 4, 31, 22,6, 32, 7, 21, 17, 3, 1, 26, 10, 33, 19, 2, 18, 5, 28, 35, 8, 16, 29, 23,14, 0, 20, 24, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 320, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 12, 27, 9, 6, 17, 10, 18, 8, 14, 36, 40,13, 25, 4, 32, 3, 33, 5, 16, 0, 37, 41, 15, 11, 31, 7, 1, 19, 28, 29,20, 38, 42, 30, 34, 22, 21, 26, 2, 35, 23, 24, 39, 43, and 44.

FIG. 321 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 7/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 321, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 19, 3, 32, 38, 16, 17, 29, 33, 14, 10, 6, 2,20, 15, 40, 39, 12, 22, 23, 34, 31, 13, 44, 43, 36, 24, 37, 42, 0, 9, 4,21, 5, 35, 26, 41, 7, 28, 11, 25, 8, 18, 1, 30, and 27.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 321, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 19, 16, 14, 20, 12, 31, 36, 0, 5, 7, 8, 3,17, 10, 15, 22, 13, 24, 9, 35, 28, 18, 32, 29, 6, 40, 23, 44, 37, 4, 26,11, 1, 38, 33, 2, 39, 34, 43, 42, 21, 41, 25, 30, and 27.

FIG. 322 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 8/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 322, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 36, 5, 22, 26, 1, 13, 3, 33, 9, 6, 23, 20, 35,10, 17, 41, 30, 15, 21, 42, 29, 11, 37, 4, 2, 38, 44, 0, 18, 19, 8, 31,28, 43, 14, 34, 32, 25, 40, 12, 16, 24, 39, 27, and 7.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 322, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 36, 20, 37, 43, 5, 35, 4, 14, 22, 10, 2,34, 26, 17, 38, 32, 1, 41, 44, 25, 13, 30, 0, 40, 3, 15, 18, 12, 33, 21,19, 16, 9, 42, 8, 24, 6, 29, 31, 39, 23, 11, 28, 27, and 7.

FIG. 323 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 9/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 323, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 4, 6, 19, 2, 5, 30, 20, 11, 22, 12, 15, 0, 36,37, 38, 39, 26, 14, 34, 35, 16, 13, 18, 42, 7, 10, 25, 43, 40, 17, 41,24, 33, 31, 23, 32, 21, 3, 27, 28, 8, 9, 29, 1, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 323, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 4, 5, 22, 36, 26, 16, 7, 40, 33, 21, 8, 6,30, 12, 37, 14, 13, 10, 17, 31, 3, 9, 19, 20, 15, 38, 34, 18, 25, 41,23, 27, 29, 2, 11, 0, 39, 35, 42, 43, 24, 32, 28, 1, and 44.

FIG. 324 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 10/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 324, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 27, 11, 20, 1, 7, 5, 29, 35, 9, 10, 34, 18,25, 28, 6, 13, 17, 0, 23, 16, 41, 15, 19, 44, 24, 37, 4, 31, 8, 32, 14,42, 12, 2, 40, 30, 36, 39, 43, 21, 3, 22, 26, 33, and 38.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 324, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 27, 18, 19, 2, 11, 25, 44, 40, 20, 28, 24,30, 1, 6, 37, 36, 7, 13, 4, 39, 5, 17, 31, 43, 29, 0, 8, 21, 35, 23, 32,3, 9, 16, 14, 22, 10, 41, 42, 26, 34, 15, 12, 33, and 38.

FIG. 325 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 11/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 325, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 2, 4, 41, 8, 13, 7, 0, 24, 3, 22, 5, 32, 10,9, 36, 37, 29, 11, 25, 16, 20, 21, 35, 34, 15, 1, 6, 14, 27, 30, 33, 12,17, 28, 23, 40, 26, 31, 38, 39, 18, 19, 42, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 325, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 2, 13, 3, 10, 29, 20, 15, 27, 17, 26, 18,4, 7, 22, 9, 11, 21, 1, 30, 28, 31, 19, 41, 0, 5, 36, 25, 35, 6, 33, 23,38, 42, 8, 24, 32, 37, 16, 34, 14, 12, 40, 39, 43, and 44.

FIG. 326 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 12/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 326, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 3, 6, 7, 27, 2, 23, 10, 30, 22, 28, 24, 20,37, 21, 4, 14, 11, 42, 16, 9, 15, 26, 33, 40, 5, 8, 44, 34, 18, 0, 32,29, 19, 41, 38, 17, 25, 43, 35, 36, 13, 39, 12, 1, and 31.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 326, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 3, 20, 33, 41, 6, 37, 40, 38, 7, 21, 5,17, 27, 4, 8, 25, 2, 14, 44, 43, 23, 11, 34, 35, 10, 42, 18, 36, 30, 16,0, 13, 22, 9, 32, 39, 28, 15, 29, 12, 24, 26, 19, 1, and 31.

FIG. 327 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is16-QAM and the code rate r is 13/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 327, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 12, 7, 20, 43, 29, 13, 32, 30, 25, 0, 17, 18,9, 1, 41, 42, 6, 33, 28, 14, 16, 11, 39, 40, 15, 4, 23, 5, 2, 24, 22,38, 10, 8, 19, 34, 26, 36, 37, 27, 21, 31, 3, 35, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 327, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 12, 29, 25, 9, 6, 16, 15, 2, 10, 26, 21,7, 13, 0, 1, 33, 11, 4, 24, 8, 36, 31, 20, 32, 17, 41, 28, 39, 23, 22,19, 37, 3, 43, 30, 18, 42, 14, 40, 5, 38, 34, 27, 35, and 44.

FIG. 328 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 2/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 328, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 7, 11, 4, 38, 19, 25, 2, 43, 15, 26, 18, 14,9, 29, 44, 32, 0, 5, 35, 10, 1, 12, 6, 36, 21, 33, 37, 34, 3, 31, 20,16, 40, 23, 41, 22, 30, 39, 13, 24, 17, 42, 28, 8, and 27.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 328, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 7, 43, 44, 12, 3, 22, 11, 15, 32, 6, 31,30, 4, 26, 0, 36, 20, 39, 38, 18, 5, 21, 16, 13, 19, 14, 35, 33, 40, 24,25, 9, 10, 37, 23, 17, 2, 29, 1, 34, 41, 42, 28, 8, and 27.

FIG. 329 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 3/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 329, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 19, 34, 22, 6, 29, 25, 23, 36, 7, 8, 24, 16,27, 43, 11, 35, 5, 28, 13, 4, 3, 17, 15, 38, 20, 0, 26, 12, 1, 39, 31,41, 44, 30, 9, 21, 42, 18, 14, 32, 10, 2, 37, 33, and 40.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 329, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 19, 36, 11, 17, 1, 21, 34, 7, 35, 15, 39,42, 22, 8, 5, 38, 31, 18, 6, 24, 28, 20, 41, 14, 29, 16, 13, 0, 44, 32,25, 27, 4, 26, 30, 10, 23, 43, 3, 12, 9, 2, 37, 33, and 40.

FIG. 330 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 4/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 330, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 41, 34, 32, 37, 5, 8, 13, 15, 30, 31, 22, 25,42, 20, 23, 17, 1, 40, 44, 12, 6, 43, 7, 29, 33, 16, 11, 0, 35, 4, 14,28, 21, 3, 24, 19, 18, 36, 10, 38, 26, 2, 39, 27, and 9.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 330, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 41, 15, 23, 43, 35, 19, 34, 30, 17, 7, 4,18, 32, 31, 1, 29, 14, 36, 37, 22, 40, 33, 28, 10, 5, 25, 44, 16, 21,38, 8, 42, 12, 11, 3, 26, 13, 20, 6, 0, 24, 2, 39, 27, and 9.

FIG. 331 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 5/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 331, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 25, 44, 8, 39, 37, 2, 11, 7, 0, 12, 4, 31, 33,38, 43, 21, 26, 13, 28, 29, 1, 27, 18, 17, 34, 3, 42, 10, 19, 20, 32,36, 40, 9, 41, 5, 35, 30, 22, 15, 16, 6, 24, 23, and 14.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 331, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 25, 7, 43, 27, 19, 5, 44, 0, 21, 18, 20,35, 8, 12, 26, 17, 32, 30, 39, 4, 13, 34, 36, 22, 37, 31, 28, 3, 40, 15,2, 33, 29, 42, 9, 16, 11, 38, 1, 10, 41, 6, 24, 23, 14.

FIG. 332 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 6/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 332, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 31, 12, 39, 32, 30, 24, 28, 15, 38, 23, 27,41, 0, 6, 17, 37, 42, 20, 11, 4, 40, 2, 3, 26, 10, 7, 13, 25, 1, 18, 8,5, 14, 36, 35, 33, 22, 9, 44, 16, 34, 19, 21, 29, and 43.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 332, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 31, 28, 0, 11, 10, 8, 22, 12, 15, 6, 4, 7,5, 9, 39, 38, 17, 40, 13, 14, 44, 32, 23, 37, 2, 25, 36, 16, 30, 27, 42,3, 1, 35, 34, 24, 41, 20, 26, 18, 33, 19, 21, 29, and 43.

FIG. 333 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 7/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 333, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 2, 14, 10, 0, 37, 42, 38, 40, 24, 29, 28, 35,18, 16, 20, 27, 41, 30, 15, 19, 9, 43, 25, 3, 6, 7, 31, 32, 26, 36, 17,1, 13, 5, 39, 33, 4, 8, 23, 22, 11, 34, 44, 12, and 21.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 333, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 2, 38, 18, 15, 6, 17, 4, 14, 40, 16, 19,7, 1, 8, 10, 24, 20, 9, 31, 13, 23, 0, 29, 27, 43, 32, 5, 22, 37, 28,41, 25, 26, 39, 11, 42, 35, 30, 3, 36, 33, 34, 44, 12, and 21.

FIG. 334 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 8/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 334, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 36, 6, 2, 20, 43, 17, 33, 22, 23, 25, 13, 0,10, 7, 21, 1, 19, 26, 8, 14, 31, 35, 16, 5, 29, 40, 11, 9, 4, 34, 15,42, 32, 28, 18, 37, 30, 39, 24, 41, 3, 38, 27, 12, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 334, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 36, 22, 21, 35, 4, 37, 6, 23, 1, 16, 34,30, 2, 25, 19, 5, 15, 39, 20, 13, 26, 29, 42, 24, 43, 0, 8, 40, 32, 41,17, 10, 14, 11, 28, 3, 33, 7, 31, 9, 18, 38, 27, 12, and 44.

FIG. 335 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 9/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 335, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 21, 5, 43, 38, 40, 1, 3, 17, 11, 37, 10, 41,9, 15, 25, 44, 14, 27, 7, 18, 20, 35, 16, 0, 6, 19, 8, 22, 29, 28, 34,31, 33, 30, 32, 42, 13, 4, 24, 26, 36, 2, 23, 12, and 39.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 335, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 21, 3, 9, 7, 6, 34, 13, 5, 17, 15, 18, 19,31, 4, 43, 11, 25, 20, 8, 33, 24, 38, 37, 44, 35, 22, 30, 26, 40, 10,14, 16, 29, 32, 36, 1, 41, 27, 0, 28, 42, 2, 23, 12, and 39.

FIG. 336 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 10/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 336, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 14, 22, 18, 11, 28, 26, 2, 38, 10, 0, 5, 12,24, 17, 29, 16, 39, 13, 23, 8, 25, 43, 34, 33, 27, 15, 7, 1, 9, 35, 40,32, 30, 20, 36, 31, 21, 41, 44, 3, 42, 6, 19, 37, and 4.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 336, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 14, 38, 29, 43, 9, 31, 22, 10, 16, 34, 35,21, 18, 0, 39, 33, 40, 41, 11, 5, 13, 27, 32, 44, 28, 12, 23, 15, 30, 3,26, 24, 8, 7, 20, 42, 2, 17, 25, 1, 36, 6, 19, 37, and 4.

FIG. 337 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 11/15.

According to the original pattern (A) of FIG. 337, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 31, 20, 21, 25, 4, 16, 9, 3, 17, 24, 5, 10,12, 28, 6, 19, 8, 15, 13, 11, 29, 22, 27, 14, 23, 34, 26, 18, 42, 2, 37,44, 39, 33, 35, 41, 0, 36, 7, 40, 38, 1, 30, 32, and 43.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 337, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 31, 3, 6, 22, 42, 41, 20, 17, 19, 27, 2,0, 21, 24, 8, 14, 37, 36, 25, 5, 15, 23, 44, 7, 4, 10, 13, 34, 39, 40,16, 12, 11, 26, 33, 38, 9, 28, 29, 18, 35, 1, 30, 32, and 43.

FIG. 338 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 12/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 338, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 17, 11, 14, 7, 31, 10, 2, 26, 0, 32, 29, 22,33, 12, 20, 28, 27, 39, 37, 15, 4, 5, 8, 13, 38, 18, 23, 34, 24, 6, 1,9, 16, 44, 21, 3, 36, 30, 40, 35, 43, 42, 25, 19, and 41.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 338, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 17, 26, 20, 5, 24, 3, 11, 0, 28, 8, 6, 36,14, 32, 27, 13, 1, 30, 7, 29, 39, 38, 9, 40, 31, 22, 37, 18, 16, 35, 10,33, 15, 23, 44, 43, 2, 12, 4, 34, 21, 42, 25, 19, and 41.

FIG. 339 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is64-QAM and the code rate r is 13/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 339, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 9, 7, 15, 10, 11, 12, 13, 6, 21, 17, 14, 20,26, 8, 25, 32, 34, 23, 2, 4, 31, 18, 5, 27, 29, 3, 38, 36, 39, 43, 41,42, 40, 44, 1, 28, 33, 22, 16, 19, 24, 0, 30, 35, and 37.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 339, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 9, 6, 25, 18, 39, 28, 7, 21, 32, 5, 43,33, 15, 17, 34, 27, 41, 22, 10, 14, 23, 29, 42, 16, 11, 20, 2, 3, 40,19, 12, 26, 4, 38, 44, 24, 13, 8, 31, 36, 1, 0, 30, 35, and 37.

FIG. 340 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 2/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 340, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 31, 3, 38, 9, 34, 6, 4, 18, 15, 1, 21, 19, 42,20, 12, 13, 30, 26, 14, 2, 10, 35, 28, 44, 23, 11, 22, 16, 29, 40, 27,37, 25, 41, 5, 43, 39, 36, 7, 24, 32, 17, 33, 8, and 0.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 340, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 31, 6, 21, 13, 10, 11, 27, 43, 3, 4, 19,30, 35, 22, 37, 39, 38, 18, 42, 26, 28, 16, 25, 36, 9, 15, 20, 14, 44,29, 41, 7, 34, 1, 12, 2, 23, 40, 5, 24, 32, 17, 33, 8, and 0.

FIG. 341 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 3/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 341, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 5, 22, 23, 26, 29, 27, 16, 1, 4, 25, 41, 21,12, 2, 6, 8, 7, 19, 44, 42, 39, 40, 43, 35, 10, 28, 13, 15, 37, 32, 3,24, 36, 38, 11, 18, 33, 30, 14, 9, 34, 20, 0, 17, and 31.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 341, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 5, 27, 41, 8, 39, 28, 3, 18, 22, 16, 21,7, 40, 13, 24, 33, 23, 1, 12, 19, 43, 15, 36, 30, 26, 4, 2, 44, 35, 37,38, 14, 29, 25, 6, 42, 10, 32, 11, 9, 34, 20, 0, 17, and 31.

FIG. 342 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 4/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 342, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 38, 20, 0, 34, 33, 41, 14, 30, 44, 7, 37, 8,4, 9, 43, 15, 19, 32, 23, 5, 22, 26, 10, 12, 3, 31, 36, 21, 24, 11, 16,18, 17, 29, 35, 42, 13, 40, 1, 28, 2, 25, 6, 39, and 27.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 342, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 38, 41, 37, 15, 22, 31, 16, 42, 20, 14, 8,19, 26, 36, 18, 13, 0, 30, 4, 32, 10, 21, 17, 40, 34, 44, 9, 23, 12, 24,29, 1, 33, 7, 43, 5, 3, 11, 35, 28, 2, 25, 6, 39, and 27.

FIG. 343 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 5/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 343, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 4, 23, 3, 6, 18, 5, 0, 2, 7, 26, 21, 27, 39,42, 38, 31, 1, 34, 20, 37, 40, 24, 43, 25, 33, 9, 22, 36, 30, 35, 11,10, 17, 32, 13, 12, 41, 15, 14, 19, 16, 8, 44, 29, and 28.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 343, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 4, 5, 21, 31, 40, 9, 11, 12, 23, 0, 27, 1,24, 22, 10, 41, 3, 2, 39, 34, 43, 36, 17, 15, 6, 7, 42, 20, 25, 30, 32,14, 18, 26, 38, 37, 33, 35, 13, 19, 16, 8, 44, 29, and 28.

FIG. 344 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 6/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 344, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 17, 13, 25, 24, 14, 21, 1, 37, 2, 3, 11, 22,18, 5, 10, 23, 12, 4, 26, 16, 38, 36, 33, 39, 0, 6, 7, 31, 32, 34, 27,35, 15, 9, 30, 28, 19, 8, 20, 29, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 344, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 17, 2, 12, 0, 15, 13, 3, 4, 6, 9, 25, 11,26, 7, 30, 24, 22, 16, 31, 28, 14, 18, 38, 32, 19, 21, 5, 36, 34, 8, 1,10, 33, 27, 20, 37, 23, 39, 35, 29, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

FIG. 345 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 7/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 345, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 13, 16, 4, 12, 44, 15, 8, 14, 0, 3, 30, 20,35, 21, 10, 6, 19, 17, 26, 39, 7, 24, 9, 27, 5, 37, 23, 32, 40, 31, 38,42, 34, 25, 36, 2, 22, 43, 33, 28, 1, 18, 11, 41, and 29.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 345, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 13, 15, 30, 6, 7, 37, 38, 2, 16, 8, 20,19, 24, 23, 42, 22, 4, 14, 35, 17, 9, 32, 34, 43, 12, 0, 21, 26, 27, 40,25, 33, 44, 3, 10, 39, 5, 31, 36, 28, 1, 18, 11, 41, and 29.

FIG. 346 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 8/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 346, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 41, 2, 12, 6, 33, 1, 13, 11, 26, 10, 39, 43,36, 23, 42, 7, 44, 20, 8, 38, 18, 22, 24, 40, 4, 28, 29, 19, 14, 5, 9,0, 30, 25, 35, 37, 27, 32, 31, 34, 21, 3, 15, 17, and 16.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 346, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 41, 1, 39, 7, 18, 28, 9, 37, 2, 13, 43,44, 22, 29, 0, 27, 12, 11, 36, 20, 24, 19, 30, 32, 6, 26, 23, 8, 40, 14,25, 31, 33, 10, 42, 38, 4, 5, 35, 34, 21, 3, 15, 17, and 16.

FIG. 347 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 9/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 347, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 5, 7, 9, 22, 10, 12, 3, 43, 6, 4, 24, 13, 14,11, 15, 18, 19, 17, 16, 41, 25, 26, 20, 23, 21, 33, 31, 28, 39, 36, 30,37, 27, 32, 34, 35, 29, 2, 42, 0, 1, 8, 40, 38, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 347, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 5, 12, 24, 18, 25, 33, 30, 35, 7, 3, 13,19, 26, 31, 37, 29, 9, 43, 14, 17, 20, 28, 27, 2, 22, 6, 11, 16, 23, 39,32, 42, 10, 4, 15, 41, 21, 36, 34, 0, 1, 8, 40, 38, and 44.

FIG. 348 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 10/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 348, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 28, 20, 18, 38, 39, 2, 3, 30, 19, 4, 14, 36,7, 0, 25, 17, 10, 6, 33, 15, 8, 26, 42, 24, 11, 21, 23, 5, 40, 41, 29,32, 37, 44, 43, 31, 35, 34, 22, 1, 16, 27, 9, 13, and 12.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 348, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 28, 2, 14, 17, 8, 21, 29, 31, 20, 3, 36,10, 26, 23, 32, 35, 18, 30, 7, 6, 42, 5, 37, 34, 38, 19, 0, 33, 24, 40,44, 22, 39, 4, 25, 15, 11, 41, 43, 1, 16, 27, 9, 13, and 12.

FIG. 349 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 11/15.

According to the original GW pattern (B) of FIG. 349, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 8, 13, 0, 11, 9, 4, 36, 37, 16, 3, 10, 14, 24,20, 33, 34, 25, 2, 21, 31, 12, 19, 7, 5, 27, 23, 26, 1, 18, 22, 35, 6,32, 30, 28, 15, 29, 17, 39, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (A) of FIG. 349, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 8, 16, 25, 27, 32, 13, 3, 2, 23, 30, 0,10, 21, 26, 28, 11, 14, 31, 1, 15, 9, 24, 12, 18, 29, 4, 20, 19, 22, 17,36, 33, 7, 35, 39, 37, 34, 5, 6, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

FIG. 350 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 12/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 350, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 28, 21, 10, 15, 8, 22, 26, 2, 14, 1, 27, 3,39, 20, 34, 25, 12, 6, 7, 40, 30, 29, 38, 16, 43, 33, 4, 35, 9, 32, 5,36, 0, 41, 37, 18, 17, 13, 24, 42, 31, 23, 19, 11, and 44.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 350, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 28, 22, 27, 25, 30, 33, 5, 18, 21, 26, 3,12, 29, 4, 36, 17, 10, 2, 39, 6, 38, 35, 0, 13, 15, 14, 20, 7, 16, 9,41, 24, 8, 1, 34, 40, 43, 32, 37, 42, 31, 23, 19, 11, and 44.

FIG. 351 is a diagram showing an example of the GW pattern for the LDPCcode having the code length N of 16 k bits when the modulation scheme is256-QAM and the code rate r is 13/15.

According to the original GW pattern (A) of FIG. 351, the arrangement ofbit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 9, 13, 10, 7, 11, 6, 1, 14, 12, 8, 21, 15, 4,36, 25, 30, 24, 28, 29, 20, 27, 5, 18, 17, 22, 33, 0, 16, 23, 31, 42, 3,40, 39, 41, 43, 37, 44, 26, 2, 19, 38, 32, 35, and 34.

According to the converted GW pattern (B) of FIG. 351, the arrangementof bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved intothe arrangement of bit groups 9, 6, 21, 30, 27, 33, 42, 43, 13, 1, 15,24, 5, 0, 3, 37, 10, 14, 4, 28, 18, 16, 40, 44, 7, 12, 36, 29, 17, 23,39, 26, 11, 8, 25, 20, 22, 31, 41, 2, 19, 38, 32, 35, and 34.

Relationship between Original GW Pattern and Converted GW Pattern

Next, the relationship between the original GW pattern and the convertedGW pattern for each code length N of 64 k bits or 16 k bits for eachmodulation scheme will be described.

Here, the relationship between the GW pattern (A) and the GW pattern (B)when the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the type A(hereinafter, described as a GW pattern (A)) is set as the original GWpattern (A) and the GW pattern for the block interleaving of the type B(hereinafter, described as a GW pattern (B)) is set as the converted GWpattern (B) will be described.

For the sake of convenience in the description, only a case where the GWpattern (A) is set as the original GW pattern (A) and the GW pattern (B)is set as the converted GW pattern (B) will be described below, but itis possible to obtained the same relationship in a case where the GWpattern (B) is set as the original GW pattern (B) and the GW pattern (A)is set as the converted GW pattern (A).

FIG. 352 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code having the code length N of64 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK.

In FIG. 352, the GW pattern (A) of the GW pattern of 0, 1, 2, . . . ,177, 178, 179 may be rewritten into the GW pattern (B).

According to the GW pattern (B) of FIG. 352, the arrangement of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 90, 1, 91, 2, 92, 3, 93, 4, 94, 5, 95, 6,96, 7, 97, 8, 98, 9, 99, 10, 100, 11, 101, 12, 102, 13, 103, 14, 104,15, 105, 16, 106, 17, 107, 18, 108, 19, 109, 20, 110, 21, 111, 22, 112,23, 113, 24, 114, 25, 115, 26, 116, 27, 117, 28, 118, 29, 119, 30, 120,31, 121, 32, 122, 33, 123, 34, 124, 35, 125, 36, 126, 37, 127, 38, 128,39, 129, 40, 130, 41, 131, 42, 132, 43, 133, 44, 134, 45, 135, 46, 136,47, 137, 48, 138, 49, 139, 50, 140, 51, 141, 52, 142, 53, 143, 54, 144,55, 145, 56, 146, 57, 147, 58, 148, 59, 149, 60, 150, 61, 151, 62, 152,63, 153, 64, 154, 65, 155, 66, 156, 67, 157, 68, 158, 69, 159, 70, 160,71, 161, 72, 162, 73, 163, 74, 164, 75, 165, 76, 166, 77, 167, 78, 168,79, 169, 80, 170, 81, 171, 82, 172, 83, 173, 84, 174, 85, 175, 86, 176,87, 177, 88, 178, 89, and 179.

FIG. 353 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code having the code length N of64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM.

In FIG. 353, the GW pattern (A) of the GW pattern of 0, 1, 2, . . . ,177, 178, 179 may be rewritten into the GW pattern (B).

According to the GW pattern (B) of FIG. 353, the arrangement of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 45, 90, 135, 1, 46, 91, 136, 2, 47, 92,137, 3, 48, 93, 138, 4, 49, 94, 139, 5, 50, 95, 140, 6, 51, 96, 141, 7,52, 97, 142, 8, 53, 98, 143, 9, 54, 99, 144, 10, 55, 100, 145, 11, 56,101, 146, 12, 57, 102, 147, 13, 58, 103, 148, 14, 59, 104, 149, 15, 60,105, 150, 16, 61, 106, 151, 17, 62, 107, 152, 18, 63, 108, 153, 19, 64,109, 154, 20, 65, 110, 155, 21, 66, 111, 156, 22, 67, 112, 157, 23, 68,113, 158, 24, 69, 114, 159, 25, 70, 115, 160, 26, 71, 116, 161, 27, 72,117, 162, 28, 73, 118, 163, 29, 74, 119, 164, 30, 75, 120, 165, 31, 76,121, 166, 32, 77, 122, 167, 33, 78, 123, 168, 34, 79, 124, 169, 35, 80,125, 170, 36, 81, 126, 171, 37, 82, 127, 172, 38, 83, 128, 173, 39, 84,129, 174, 40, 85, 130, 175, 41, 86, 131, 176, 42, 87, 132, 177, 43, 88,133, 178, 44, 89, 134, and 179.

FIG. 354 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code having the code length N of64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM.

In FIG. 354, the GW pattern (A) of the GW pattern of 0, 1, 2, . . . ,177, 178, 179 may be rewritten into the GW pattern (B).

According to the GW pattern (B) of FIG. 354, the arrangement of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 1, 31, 61, 91, 121,151, 2, 32, 62, 92, 122, 152, 3, 33, 63, 93, 123, 153, 4, 34, 64, 94,124, 154, 5, 35, 65, 95, 125, 155, 6, 36, 66, 96, 126, 156, 7, 37, 67,97, 127, 157, 8, 38, 68, 98, 128, 158, 9, 39, 69, 99, 129, 159, 10, 40,70, 100, 130, 160, 11, 41, 71, 101, 131, 161, 12, 42, 72, 102, 132, 162,13, 43, 73, 103, 133, 163, 14, 44, 74, 104, 134, 164, 15, 45, 75, 105,135, 165, 16, 46, 76, 106, 136, 166, 17, 47, 77, 107, 137, 167, 18, 48,78, 108, 138, 168, 19, 49, 79, 109, 139, 169, 20, 50, 80, 110, 140, 170,21, 51, 81, 111, 141, 171, 22, 52, 82, 112, 142, 172, 23, 53, 83, 113,143, 173, 24, 54, 84, 114, 144, 174, 25, 55, 85, 115, 145, 175, 26, 56,86, 116, 146, 176, 27, 57, 87, 117, 147, 177, 28, 58, 88, 118, 148, 178,29, 59, 89, 119, 149, and 179.

FIG. 355 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code having the code length N of64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM.

In FIG. 355, the GW pattern (A) of the GW pattern of 0, 1, 2, . . . ,177, 178, 179 may be rewritten into the GW pattern (B).

According to the GW pattern (B) of FIG. 355, the arrangement of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 22, 44, 66, 88, 110, 132, 154, 1, 23, 45,67, 89, 111, 133, 155, 2, 24, 46, 68, 90, 112, 134, 156, 3, 25, 47, 69,91, 113, 135, 157, 4, 26, 48, 70, 92, 114, 136, 158, 5, 27, 49, 71, 93,115, 137, 159, 6, 28, 50, 72, 94, 116, 138, 160, 7, 29, 51, 73, 95, 117,139, 161, 8, 30, 52, 74, 96, 118, 140, 162, 9, 31, 53, 75, 97, 119, 141,163, 10, 32, 54, 76, 98, 120, 142, 164, 11, 33, 55, 77, 99, 121, 143,165, 12, 34, 56, 78, 100, 122, 144, 166, 13, 35, 57, 79, 101, 123, 145,167, 14, 36, 58, 80, 102, 124, 146, 168, 15, 37, 59, 81, 103, 125, 147,169, 16, 38, 60, 82, 104, 126, 148, 170, 17, 39, 61, 83, 105, 127, 149,171, 18, 40, 62, 84, 106, 128, 150, 172, 19, 41, 63, 85, 107, 129, 151,173, 20, 42, 64, 86, 108, 130, 152, 174, 21, 43, 65, 87, 109, 131, 153,175, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 356 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code having the code length N of64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 1024-QAM.

In FIG. 356, the GW pattern (A) of the GW pattern of 0, 1, 2, . . . ,177, 178, 179 may be rewritten into the GW pattern (B).

According to the GW pattern (B) of FIG. 356, the arrangement of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 18, 36, 54, 72, 90, 108, 126, 144, 162, 1,19, 37, 55, 73, 91, 109, 127, 145, 163, 2, 20, 38, 56, 74, 92, 110, 128,146, 164, 3, 21, 39, 57, 75, 93, 111, 129, 147, 165, 4, 22, 40, 58, 76,94, 112, 130, 148, 166, 5, 23, 41, 59, 77, 95, 113, 131, 149, 167, 6,24, 42, 60, 78, 96, 114, 132, 150, 168, 7, 25, 43, 61, 79, 97, 115, 133,151, 169, 8, 26, 44, 62, 80, 98, 116, 134, 152, 170, 9, 27, 45, 63, 81,99, 117, 135, 153, 171, 10, 28, 46, 64, 82, 100, 118, 136, 154, 172, 11,29, 47, 65, 83, 101, 119, 137, 155, 173, 12, 30, 48, 66, 84, 102, 120,138, 156, 174, 13, 31, 49, 67, 85, 103, 121, 139, 157, 175, 14, 32, 50,68, 86, 104, 122, 140, 158, 176, 15, 33, 51, 69, 87, 105, 123, 141, 159,177, 16, 34, 52, 70, 88, 106, 124, 142, 160, 178, 17, 35, 53, 71, 89,107, 125, 143, 161, and 179.

FIG. 357 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code having the code length N of64 k bits when the modulation scheme is 4096-QAM.

In FIG. 357, the GW pattern (A) of the GW pattern of 0, 1, 2, . . . ,177, 178, 179 may be rewritten into the GW pattern (B).

According to the GW pattern (B) of FIG. 357, the arrangement of bitgroups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120, 135, 150,165, 1, 16, 31, 46, 61, 76, 91, 106, 121, 136, 151, 166, 2, 17, 32, 47,62, 77, 92, 107, 122, 137, 152, 167, 3, 18, 33, 48, 63, 78, 93, 108,123, 138, 153, 168, 4, 19, 34, 49, 64, 79, 94, 109, 124, 139, 154, 169,5, 20, 35, 50, 65, 80, 95, 110, 125, 140, 155, 170, 6, 21, 36, 51, 66,81, 96, 111, 126, 141, 156, 171, 7, 22, 37, 52, 67, 82, 97, 112, 127,142, 157, 172, 8, 23, 38, 53, 68, 83, 98, 113, 128, 143, 158, 173, 9,24, 39, 54, 69, 84, 99, 114, 129, 144, 159, 174, 10, 25, 40, 55, 70, 85,100, 115, 130, 145, 160, 175, 11, 26, 41, 56, 71, 86, 101, 116, 131,146, 161, 176, 12, 27, 42, 57, 72, 87, 102, 117, 132, 147, 162, 177, 13,28, 43, 58, 73, 88, 103, 118, 133, 148, 163, 178, 14, 29, 44, 59, 74,89, 104, 119, 134, 149, 164, and 179.

FIG. 358 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code having the code length N of16 k bits when the modulation scheme is QPSK.

In FIG. 358, the GW pattern (A) of the GW pattern of 0, 1, 2, . . . ,42, 43, 44 may be rewritten into the GW pattern (B).

According to the GW pattern (B) of FIG. 358, the arrangement of bitgroups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 22, 1, 23, 2, 24, 3, 25, 4, 26, 5, 27, 6,28, 7, 29, 8, 30, 9, 31, 10, 32, 11, 33, 12, 34, 13, 35, 14, 36, 15, 37,16, 38, 17, 39, 18, 40, 19, 41, 20, 42, 21, 43, and 44.

FIG. 359 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code having the code length N of16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 16-QAM.

In FIG. 359, the GW pattern (A) of the GW pattern of 0, 1, 2, . . . ,42, 43, 44 may be rewritten into the GW pattern (B).

According to the GW pattern (B) of FIG. 359, the arrangement of bitgroups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 11, 22, 33, 1, 12, 23, 34, 2, 13, 24, 35,3, 14, 25, 36, 4, 15, 26, 37, 5, 16, 27, 38, 6, 17, 28, 39, 7, 18, 29,40, 8, 19, 30, 41, 9, 20, 31, 42, 10, 21, 32, 43, and 44.

FIG. 360 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code having the code length N of16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 64-QAM.

In FIG. 360, the GW pattern (A) of the GW pattern of 0, 1, 2, . . . ,42, 43, 44 may be rewritten into the GW pattern (B).

According to the GW pattern (B) of FIG. 360, the arrangement of bitgroups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 36, 2,9, 16, 23, 30, 37, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 38, 4, 11, 18, 25, 32, 39, 5, 12,19, 26, 33, 40, 6, 13, 20, 27, 34, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

FIG. 361 is a diagram showing the relationship between the GW pattern(A) and the GW pattern (B) for the LDPC code having the code length N of16 k bits when the modulation scheme is 256-QAM.

In FIG. 361, the GW pattern (A) of the GW pattern of 0, 1, 2, . . . ,42, 43, 44 may be rewritten into the GW pattern (B).

According to the GW pattern (B) of FIG. 361, the arrangement of bitgroups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 64 k bits is interleaved into thearrangement of bit groups 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 1, 6, 11, 16,21, 26, 31, 36, 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27, 32, 37, 3, 8, 13, 18, 23, 28, 33,38, 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, 34, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44.

Configuration Example of Bit Deinterleaver 165

FIG. 362 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the bitdeinterleaver 165 of FIG. 207.

The bit deinterleaver 165 includes a block deinterleaver 1031 and agroup-wise deinterleaver 1032, and performs (bit) deinterleaving on thesymbol bits of the symbol which is the data from the demapper 164 (FIG.207).

That is, the block deinterleaver 1031 performs the block deinterleaving(reverse processing of the block interleaving) corresponding to theblock interleaving performed by the block interleaver 1022 of FIG. 217on the symbol bits of the symbol from the demapper 164 as a target, thatis, the block deinterleaving that returns the positions of (thelikelihood of) the code bits of the LDPC code rearranged through theblock interleaving to the original positions, and supplies an LDPC codeobtained as the result to the group-wise deinterleaver 1032.

The block deinterleaver 1031 corresponds to the block deinterleaving ofthe type A or the type B, and can perform the block deinterleaving ofthe type A or the type B.

The group-wise deinterleaver 1032 performs the group-wise deinterleaving(reverse processing of the group-wise interleaving) corresponding to thegroup-wise interleaving performed by the group-wise interleaver 1021 ofFIG. 217 on the LDPC code from the block deinterleaver 1031 as a target,that is, the group-wise deinterleaving that returns the arrangement ofthe code bits to the original arrangement by, for example, rearrangingthe code bits of the LDPC code in which the arrangement has been changedfor every bit group through the group-wise interleaving for every bitgroup.

Here, when it is assumed that the block deinterleaving of the type A isperformed, the group-wise deinterleaver 1032 rewrites the GW pattern forthe block interleaving of the type A into the GW pattern for the blockdeinterleaving of the type B when the block deinterleaving of the type Bis performed. That is, in this case, in the group-wise deinterleaver1032, the original GW pattern (A) is rewritten into the converted GWpattern (B).

When it is assumed that the block deinterleaving of the type B isperformed, the group-wise deinterleaver 1032 rewrites the GW pattern forthe block deinterleaving of the type B into the GW pattern for the blockdeinterleaving of the type A when the block deinterleaving of the type Ais performed. That is, in this case, in the group-wise deinterleaver1032, the original GW pattern (B) is rewritten into the converted GWpattern (A).

When the parity interleaving, the group-wise interleaving and the blockinterleaving are performed on the LDPC code supplied to the bitdeinterleaver 165 from the demapper 164, the bit deinterleaver 165 canperform all of the parity deinterleaving (reverse processing of theparity interleaving, that is, the parity deinterleaving that returns thecode bits of the LDPC code in which the arrangement has been changedthrough the parity interleaving to the original arrangement)corresponding to the parity interleaving, the block deinterleavingcorresponding to the block interleaving, and the group-wisedeinterleaving corresponding to the group-wise interleaving.

However, in the bit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 362, the blockdeinterleaver 1031 that performs the block deinterleaving correspondingto the block interleaving, and the group-wise deinterleaver 1032 thatperforms the group-wise deinterleaving corresponding to the group-wiseinterleaving are provided, but the block that performs the paritydeinterleaving corresponding to the parity interleaving is not provided,and the parity deinterleaving is not performed.

Accordingly, the LDPC code on which the block deinterleaving and thegroup-wise deinterleaving have been performed and the paritydeinterleaving has not been performed is supplied to the LDPC decoder166 from (the group-wise deinterleaver 1032 of) the bit deinterleaver165.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs the LDPC decoding on the LDPC code fromthe bit deinterleaver 165 by using the transformation check matrixobtained by performing at least the column permutation corresponding tothe parity interleaving on the parity check matrix H of the DVB methodusing the LDPC encoding by the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8 (or thetransformation check matrix (FIG. 29) obtained by performing the rowpermutation on the parity check matrix of the ETRI method (FIG. 27)),and outputs the data obtained as the result as the decoded result of theLDPC target data.

Configuration Example of Block Deinterleaver 1031 Corresponding to BlockDeinterleaving of Type A

FIG. 363 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the blockdeinterleaver 1031 of FIG. 362.

The block deinterleaver 1031 corresponding to the block deinterleavingof the type A has the same configuration as that of the blockinterleaver 1022 corresponding to the block interleaving of the type Adescribed in FIG. 218.

Accordingly, the block deinterleaver 1031 includes a storage regioncalled a part 1, and a storage region called a part 2, and both of theparts 1 and 2 are configured in such a manner that columns as storageregions which store one bit in the row direction and store apredetermined number of bits in the column direction are arranged by thenumber C equal to the number of bits m of the symbol.

The block deinterleaver 1031 performs the block deinterleaving of thetype A by writing and reading the LDPC code in and from the parts 1 and2.

In the block deinterleaving of the type A, the writing of the LDPC code(as the symbol) is performed in reading order of the LDPC code performedby the block interleaver 1022 of FIG. 218.

Further, in the block deinterleaving of the type A, the reading of theLDPC code is performed in writing order of the LDPC code performed bythe block interleaver 1022 of FIG. 218.

That is, in the block interleaving of the type A by the blockinterleaver 1022 of FIG. 218, although the LDPC code is written in thecolumn direction and is read in the row direction with respect to theparts 1 and 2, in the block deinterleaving of the type A by the blockdeinterleaver 1031 of FIG. 363, the LDPC code is written in the rowdirection and is read in the column direction with respect to the parts1 and 2.

Configuration Example of Block Deinterleaver 1031 Corresponding to BlockDeinterleaving of Type B

FIG. 364 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a blockdeinterleaver 1031 of FIG. 362.

The block deinterleaver 1031 corresponding to the block deinterleavingof the type B has the same configuration as that of the blockinterleaver 1022 corresponding to the block interleaving of the type Bdescribed in FIG. 224.

Accordingly, the block deinterleaver 1031 includes a storage regioncalled a part 1, and a storage region called a part 2.

The part 1 is configured in such a manner that columns as storageregions which store one bit in the row direction and store apredetermined number of bits in the column direction are arranged in therow direction by the number C equal to the number of bits m of thesymbol. The part 2 is configured in such a manner that rows as storageregions which store one bit in the column direction and store apredetermined number of bits in the row direction.

The block deinterleaver 1031 performs the block deinterleaving of thetype B by writing and reading the LDPC code in and from the parts 1 and2.

However, in the block deinterleaving of the type B, the writing of theLDPC code (as the symbol) is performed in reading order of the LDPC codeperformed by the block interleaver 1022 of FIG. 224.

Moreover, in the block deinterleaving of the type B, the reading of theLDPC code is performed in writing order of the LDPC code performed bythe block interleaver 1022 of FIG. 224.

That is, in the block interleaving of the type B by the blockinterleaver 1022 of FIG. 224, since the LDPC code is written in the rowdirection and read in the row direction with respect to the parts 1 and2, in the block deinterleaving of the type B by the block deinterleaver1031 of FIG. 364, the LDPC code is written in the row direction and isread in the row direction with respect to the parts 1 and 2.

Another Configuration Example of Bit Deinterleaver 165

FIG. 365 is a block diagram showing another configuration example of thebit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 207.

In the drawing, the parts corresponding to those in FIG. 362 will beassigned the same reference numerals, and the description thereof willbe appropriately omitted in the following description.

That is, the bit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 365 has the sameconfiguration as that in FIG. 362 except for the fact that a paritydeinterleaver 1011 is newly provided.

In FIG. 365, the bit deinterleaver 165 includes the block deinterleaver1031, the group-wise deinterleaver 1032, and the parity deinterleaver1011, and performs the bit deinterleaving on the code bits of the LDPCcode from the demapper 164.

That is, the block deinterleaver 1031 performs the block deinterleaving(reverse processing of the block interleaving) corresponding to theblock interleaving performed by the block interleaver 1022 of thetransmission apparatus 11 on the LDP code from the demapper 164 as atarget, that is, the block deinterleaving that returns the positions ofthe code bits replaced through the block interleaving to the originalpositions, and supplies an LDPC code obtained as the result to thegroup-wise deinterleaver 1032.

The group-wise deinterleaver 1032 performs the group-wise deinterleavingcorresponding to the group-wise interleaving as the rearranging processperformed by the group-wise interleaver 1021 of the transmissionapparatus 11 on the LDPC code from the block deinterleaver 1031 as atarget.

The LDPC code obtained as the result of the group-wise deinterleaving issupplied to the parity deinterleaver 1011 from the group-wisedeinterleaver 1032.

The parity deinterleaving performed by the parity deinterleaver 1011 andthe LDPC decoding on the LDPC code performed by the LDPC decoder 166 arethe same as those in FIG. 216, and thus, the description thereof will beomitted below.

For the sake of convenience in the description, although it has beendescribed in FIG. 365 that the block deinterleaver 1031 that performsthe block deinterleaving, the group-wise deinterleaver 1032 thatperforms the group-wise deinterleaving and the parity deinterleaver 1011that performs the parity deinterleaving are individually provided, twoor more of the block deinterleaver 1031, the group-wise deinterleaver1032 and the parity deinterleaver 1011 may be integrally configuredsimilarly to the parity interleaver 23, the group-wise interleaver 1021and the block interleaver 1022 of the transmission apparatus 11.

Configuration Example of Reception System

FIG. 366 is a block diagram showing a first configuration example of areception system to which the reception apparatus 12 can be applied.

In FIG. 366, the reception system includes an acquisition unit 1101, atransmission channel decoding unit 1102, and an information sourcedecoding unit 1103.

The acquisition unit 1101 obtains a signal including the LDPC codeobtained by performing at least the LDPC encoding on the LDPC targetdata such as image data or voice data of a program through anon-illustrated transmission channel (communication channel) such asterrestrial digital broadcasting, satellite digital broadcasting, a CATVnetwork, or other networks other than the Internet, and supplies theobtained signal to the transmission channel decoding unit 1102.

Here, when the signal obtained by the acquisition unit 1101 isbroadcasted from, for example, a broadcasting station through theterrestrial digital broadcasting, the satellite digital broadcasting, orthe cable television (CATV) network, the acquisition unit 1101 isconfigured as a tuner or a set-top box (STB). When the signal obtainedby the acquisition unit 1101 is transmitted using, for example,multicast such as an internet protocol television (IPTV) from a webserver, the acquisition unit 1101 is configured as a network interface(I/F) such as a network interface card (NIC).

The transmission channel decoding unit 1102 corresponds to the receptionapparatus 12. The transmission channel decoding unit 1102 performstransmission channel decoding including at least a process of correctingan error occurring in a transmission channel on the signal obtained bythe acquisition unit 1101 through the transmission channel, and suppliesa signal obtained as the result to the information source decoding unit1103.

That is, the signal obtained by the acquisition unit 1101 through thetransmission channel is a signal obtained by performing at least anerror correcting encoding for correcting the error in the transmissionchannel, and the transmission channel decoding unit 1102 performs thetransmission channel decoding such as an error correcting process on thesignal.

Here, examples of the error correcting encoding includes LDPC encodingand BCH encoding. Here, as the error correcting encoding, at least theLDPC encoding is performed.

In addition, the transmission channel decoding may include decoding on amodulation signal.

The information source decoding unit 1103 performs information sourcedecoding including at least a process of decompressing compressedinformation to original information on the signal on which thetransmission channel decoding has been performed.

That is, in order to reduce the amount of data such as image or voice asinformation, compression encoding that compresses the information may beperformed on the signal obtained by the acquisition unit 1101 throughthe transmission channel, and in this case, the information sourcedecoding unit 1103 performs the information source decoding such as theprocess (decompression process) of decompressing the compressedinformation to the original information on the signal on which thetransmission channel decoding has been performed.

When the compression encoding has not been performed on the signalobtained by the acquisition unit 1101 through the transmission channel,the information source decoding unit 1103 does not perform the processof decompressing the compressed information to the original information.

Here, as the decompression process, there is, for example, a MPEGdecoding. The transmission channel decoding may include descrambling inaddition to the decompression process.

In the reception system having the aforementioned configuration, thecompression encoding such as MPEG encoding is performed on data such asimage or voice in the acquisition unit 1101, and the signal on which theerror correcting encoding such as LDPC encoding has been performed isobtained through the transmission channel and is supplied to thetransmission channel decoding unit 1102.

In the transmission channel decoding unit 1102, for example, the sameprocess as that performed by the reception apparatus 12 is performed onthe signal from the acquisition unit 1101, as the transmission channeldecoding, and a signal obtained as the result is supplied to theinformation source decoding unit 1103.

In the information source decoding unit 1103, the information sourcedecoding such as MPEG decoding is performed on the signal from thetransmission channel decoding unit 1102, and an image or a voiceobtained as the result is output.

For example, the reception system of FIG. 366 described above may beapplied to a television tuner that receives television broadcasting asdigital broadcasting.

The acquisition unit 1101, the transmission channel decoding unit 1102and the information source decoding unit 1103 may be independentlyconfigured as one device (hardware (integrated circuit (IC)) orsoftware).

With regard to the acquisition unit 1101, the transmission channeldecoding unit 1102 and the information source decoding unit 1103, a setof the acquisition unit 1101 and the transmission channel decoding unit1102, a set of the transmission channel decoding unit 1102 and theinformation source decoding unit 1103, and a set of the acquisition unit1101, the transmission channel decoding unit 1102 and the informationsource decoding unit 1103 may be independently configured as one device.

FIG. 367 is a block diagram showing a second configuration example ofthe reception system to which the reception apparatus 12 can be applied.

In the drawing, the parts corresponding to those in FIG. 366 will beassigned the same reference numerals, and thus, the description thereofwill be appropriately omitted.

The reception system of FIG. 367 has in common with the reception systemof FIG. 366 in that the acquisition unit 1101, the transmission channeldecoding unit 1102 and the information source decoding unit 1103 areprovided, and has a difference from the reception system of FIG. 366 inthat an output unit 1111 is newly provided.

The output unit 1111 is, for example, a display unit that displays animage or a speaker that outputs a voice, and outputs an image or a voiceas the signal output from the information source decoding unit 1103.That is, the output unit 1111 displays the image or outputs the voice.

For example, the reception system of FIG. 367 described above may beapplied to a TV (television receiver) that receives televisionbroadcasting as digital broadcasting or a radio receiver that receivesradio broadcasting.

When the compression encoding has not been performed on the signalobtained in the acquisition unit 1101, the signal output from thetransmission channel decoding unit 1102 is supplied to the output unit1111.

FIG. 368 is a block diagram showing a third configuration example of thereception system to which the reception apparatus 12 can be applied.

In the drawing, the parts corresponding to those in FIG. 366 will beassigned the same reference numerals, and thus, the description thereofwill be appropriately omitted.

The reception system of FIG. 368 has in common with the reception systemin FIG. 366 in that the acquisition unit 1101 and the transmissionchannel decoding unit 1102 are provided.

However, the reception system of FIG. 368 has a difference from thereception system of FIG. 366 in that the information source decodingunit 1103 is not provided and a recording unit 1121 is newly provided.

The recording unit 1121 records (stores) the signal (for example, TSpacket of TS of MPEC) output from the transmission channel decoding unit1102 in a recording (storing) medium such as an optical disc, a harddisc (magnetic disc), or a flash memory.

The reception system of FIG. 368 described above may be applied to arecorder that records television broadcasting.

In FIG. 368, the reception system includes the information sourcedecoding unit 1103, and in the information source decoding unit 1103,the signal on which the information source decoding has been performed,that is, the image or the voice obtained through decoding can berecorded in the recording unit 1121.

Embodiment of Computer

Next, a series of processes described above may be performed by hardwareor may be performed by software. When the series of processes isperformed by software, programs constituting the software are installedin a general-purpose computer.

Here, FIG. 369 shows a configuration example of an embodiment of acomputer in which the programs for executing the series of processes areinstalled.

The programs may be previously recorded in a hard disc 705 or a ROM 703as a recording medium embedded in the computer.

Alternatively, the programs may be temporarily or permanently stored(recorded) in a removable recording medium 711 such as a flexible disc,a compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a magneto-optical (MO) disc, adigital versatile disc (DVD), a magnetic disc, or a semiconductormemory. The removable recording medium 711 may be provided as so-calledpackage software.

The programs may be installed in the computer from the removablerecording medium 711, may be wirelessly transmitted to the computer froma download site through an artificial satellite for digital satellitebroadcasting, or may be transmitted to the computer through a networksuch as a local area network (LAN) or the Internet in a wired manner. Inthe computer, the programs transmitted in this manner may be received bya communication unit 708, and may be installed in the hard disc 705embedded therein.

The computer includes a central processing unit (CPU) 702. An input andoutput interface 710 is connected to the CPU 702 through a bus 701, andwhen an instruction is input by an operation input of an input unit 707including a keyboard, a mouse or a microphone by a user through theinput and output interface 710, the CPU 702 executes the programs storedin the read-only memory (ROM) 703 in response to the instruction.Alternatively, the CPU 702 downloads the programs stored in the harddisc 705, the programs which is transmitted from the satellite or thenetwork, received by the communication unit 708 and installed in thehard disc 705, and the programs which is read from the removablerecording medium 711 provided in a drive 709 and is installed in thehard disc 705 in a random-access memory (RAM) 704, and executes thedownloaded programs. Thus, the CPU 702 performs the process according tothe flowchart described above or the process performed by theconfiguration of the block diagram described above. The CPU 702 outputsthe processed result from an output unit 706 including a liquid crystaldisplay (LCD) or a speaker through, for example, the input and outputinterface 710 when necessary, transmits the processed result from thecommunication unit 708, or records the processed result in the hard disc705.

Here, in the present specification, processing steps that describe theprograms for causing the computer to perform various processes are notnecessarily performed in a sequence of time in the order described asthe flowchart, and may include processes which are executed in parallelor individual manner (for example, a parallel process or a process byobjects).

Furthermore, the programs may be processed by one computer, or may beprocessed in a distributed manner by a plurality of computers. Further,the programs may be executed by being transmitted to a remote computer.

The embodiments of the present technology are not limited to theembodiments described above, and can be variously changed within thescope without departing from the gist of the present technology.

That is, for example, in (the parity check matrix initial value tableof) the new LDPC encoding described above, the communication channel 13(FIG. 7) may use a satellite channel, a terrestrial channel, or a cable(wired channel), and other channels. The new LDPC code may be used indata transmission other then digital broadcasting.

The GW pattern described above may be applied to encoding other than thenew LDPC encoding. Moreover, a modulation scheme to which the GW patterndescribed above is applied is not limited to QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM,256-QAM, 1024-QAM or 4096-QAM.

The effects described in the present specification are merely examples,and are not limited. Other effects may be obtained.

What is claimed is:
 1. A data processing apparatus comprising: agroup-wise interleaving unit that performs group-wise interleaving whichinterleaves an LDPC code having a code length (N) of 16,200 bits or64,800 bits for every bit group of 360 bits; and a block interleavingunit that performs block interleaving in such a manner that an LDPC codeobtained by performing the group-wise interleaving is written in mnumber of columns as storage regions arranged in the row direction, mbits are obtained by respectively reading the LDPC code from m number ofcolumns bit by bit, and the m bits are interleaved into one symbolcorresponding to any one of 2^(m) number of signal points defined by amodulation scheme, wherein a type of the block interleaving includes atype A in which the writing of an LDPC code obtained by performing thegroup-wise interleaving in the column direction of the columns isiteratively performed on m number of columns, and a type B in which thewriting of an LDPC code obtained by performing the group-wiseinterleaving in the row direction of m number of columns for every bitgroup is iteratively performed, wherein a MODCOD which is a combinationof the LDPC code and the modulation scheme includes a MODCOD-A which isa MODCOD based on the assumption that the block interleaving of the typeA is performed, and a MDOCOD-B which is a MDOCOD based on the assumptionthat the block interleaving of the type B is performed, and wherein whenthe block interleaving of the type A is performed on the LDPC code ofthe MODCOD-B, the group-wise interleaving unit performs the group-wiseinterleaving on the LDPC code of the MODCOD-B such that the same blockinterleaving result as the block interleaving result obtained when theblock interleaving of the type B is performed is obtained, or when theblock interleaving of the type B is performed on the LDPC code of theMODCOD-A, the group-wise interleaving unit performs the group-wiseinterleaving on the LDPC code of the MDOCOD-A such that the same blockinterleaving result as the block interleaving result obtained when theblock interleaving of the type A is performed is obtained.
 2. A dataprocessing method comprising: group-wise interleaving which interleavesan LDPC code having a code length (N) of 16,200 bits or 64,800 bits forevery bit group of 360 bits; and block interleaving in such a mannerthat an LDPC code obtained by performing the group-wise interleaving iswritten in m number of columns as storage regions arranged in the rowdirection, m bits are obtained by respectively reading the LDPC codefrom m number of columns bit by bit, and the m bits are interleaved intoone symbol corresponding to any one of 2^(m) number of signal pointsdefined by a modulation scheme, wherein a type of the block interleavingincludes a type A in which the writing of an LDPC code obtained byperforming the group-wise interleaving in the column direction of thecolumns is iteratively performed on m number of columns, and a type B inwhich the writing of an LDPC code obtained by performing the group-wiseinterleaving in the row direction of m number of columns for every bitgroup is iteratively performed, wherein a MODCOD which is a combinationof the LDPC code and the modulation scheme includes a MODCOD-A which isa MODCOD based on the assumption that the block interleaving of the typeA is performed, and a MDOCOD-B which is a MDOCOD based on the assumptionthat the block interleaving of the type B is performed, and wherein whenthe block interleaving of the type A is performed on the LDPC code ofthe MODCOD-B, in the group-wise interleaving, the group-wiseinterleaving is performed on the LDPC code of the MODCOD-B such that thesame block interleaving result as the block interleaving result obtainedwhen the block interleaving of the type B is performed is obtained, orwhen the block interleaving of the type B is performed on the LDPC codeof the MODCOD-A, in the group-wise interleaving, the group-wiseinterleaving is performed on the LDPC code of the MDOCOD-A such that thesame block interleaving result as the block interleaving result obtainedwhen the block interleaving of the type A is performed is obtained.
 3. Adata processing apparatus comprising: a block deinterleaving unit thatperforms block deinterleaving which returns m bits of a symbol obtainedfrom data transmitted from a transmission apparatus to an LDPC codeobtained by performing group-wise interleaving; and a group-wisedeinterleaving unit that performs group-wise deinterleaving whichreturns the arrangement of the LDPC code obtained by performing thegroup-wise interleaving on the original arrangement, wherein thetransmission apparatus includes a group-wise interleaving unit thatperforms group-wise interleaving which interleaves an LDPC code having acode length (N) of 16,200 bits or 64,800 bits for every bit group of 360bits, and a block interleaving unit that performs block interleaving insuch a manner that an LDPC code obtained by performing the group-wiseinterleaving is written in m number of columns as storage regionsarranged in the row direction, m bits are obtained by respectivelyreading the LDPC code from m number of columns bit by bit, and the mbits are interleaved into one symbol corresponding to any one of 2^(m)number of signal points defined by a modulation scheme, wherein a typeof the block interleaving includes a type A in which the writing of anLDPC code obtained by performing the group-wise interleaving in thecolumn direction of the columns is iteratively performed on m number ofcolumns, and a type B in which the writing of an LDPC code obtained byperforming the group-wise interleaving in the row direction of m numberof columns for every bit group is iteratively performed, wherein aMODCOD which is a combination of the LDPC code and the modulation schemeincludes a MODCOD-A which is a MODCOD based on the assumption that theblock interleaving of the type A is performed, and a MDOCOD-B which is aMDOCOD based on the assumption that the block interleaving of the type Bis performed, and wherein when the block interleaving of the type A isperformed on the LDPC code of the MODCOD-B, the group-wise interleavingunit performs the group-wise interleaving on the LDPC code of theMODCOD-B such that the same block interleaving result as the blockinterleaving result obtained when the block interleaving of the type Bis performed is obtained, or when the block interleaving of the type Bis performed on the LDPC code of the MODCOD-A, the group-wiseinterleaving unit performs the group-wise interleaving on the LDPC codeof the MDOCOD-A such that the same block interleaving result as theblock interleaving result obtained when the block interleaving of thetype A is performed is obtained.
 4. A data processing method comprising:block deinterleaving which returns m bits of a symbol obtained from datatransmitted from a transmission apparatus to an LDPC code obtained byperforming group-wise interleaving; and group-wise deinterleaving whichreturns the arrangement of the LDPC code obtained by performing thegroup-wise interleaving on the original arrangement, wherein thetransmission apparatus includes a group-wise interleaving unit thatperforms group-wise interleaving which interleaves an LDPC code having acode length (N) of 16,200 bits or 64,800 bits for every bit group of 360bits, and a block interleaving unit that performs block interleaving insuch a manner that an LDPC code obtained by performing the group-wiseinterleaving is written in m number of columns as storage regionsarranged in the row direction, m bits are obtained by respectivelyreading the LDPC code from m number of columns bit by bit, and the mbits are interleaved into one symbol corresponding to any one of 2^(m)number of signal points defined by a modulation scheme, wherein a typeof the block interleaving includes a type A in which the writing of anLDPC code obtained by performing the group-wise interleaving in thecolumn direction of the columns is iteratively performed on m number ofcolumns, and a type B in which the writing of an LDPC code obtained byperforming the group-wise interleaving in the row direction of m numberof columns for every bit group is iteratively performed, wherein aMODCOD which is a combination of the LDPC code and the modulation schemeincludes a MODCOD-A which is a MODCOD based on the assumption that theblock interleaving of the type A is performed, and a MDOCOD-B which is aMDOCOD based on the assumption that the block interleaving of the type Bis performed, and wherein when the block interleaving of the type A isperformed on the LDPC code of the MODCOD-B, the group-wise interleavingunit performs the group-wise interleaving on the LDPC code of theMODCOD-B such that the same block interleaving result as the blockinterleaving result obtained when the block interleaving of the type Bis performed is obtained, or when the block interleaving of the type Bis performed on the LDPC code of the MODCOD-A, the group-wiseinterleaving unit performs the group-wise interleaving on the LDPC codeof the MDOCOD-A such that the same block interleaving result as theblock interleaving result obtained when the block interleaving of thetype A is performed is obtained.